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CAPTAIN FRED ARCHER’S
2008 SUPERBAR CATALOG
FEATURING OVER 400 SPECIALTY SPREADERBARS,
WE OFFER BY FAR THE WORLD’S BIGGEST SELECTION.
(Limited edition print available)
HOME OF THE MOST INNOVATIVE BAR LURES ON EARTH!
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SUPERBARS
FAR SUPERIOR TO ORDINARY METAL BARS
Talk is cheap. Here are some of the reasons why our composite bars are better than metal bars...
SuperBars are so flexible that you can actually tie them in a knot and then return them to their original “fishing
position”. They impart lifelike action to our bars that can’t be remotely approached by old fashioned metal ones. Add
this wonderful flexibility to the fact that they will not kink or break during normal fishing conditions and handling and you
already have a vastly superior spreaderbar. We guarantee that the bar will not break when fished with and will replace
any broken bar for free. In over twelve years of selling SUPERBARS we have never even seen a broken bar, let alone
replaced one. SUPERBARS not only don’t kink, corrode, or rust, they are incredibly tangle-free. When it comes to not
tangling, no metal spreaderbar made by anyone, anywhere can remotely compare to a SUPERBAR.
Unlike ordinary spreaderbars, SuperBars have almost no metal components to jam, rust, corrode, break, tangle or weigh
our bars down and impede their performance. Due to their streamlined shape and lack of junky, clunky metal
rigging components, they are incredibly weedless when compared to metal bars!
Our bar stays out of the water because its light weight and the diameter of our bar cause it to act like an airfoil, or wing
when trolled. Metal bars are too thin, yet heavy, to create an airfoil effect, so they dig in and run bad.
RIGGED TO STAND UP TO HUGE FISH
Our unique composite centerpiece is produced for us out of a proprietary material on our tooling. Look closely and
you will see that other than passing alongside it, the leader has nothing to do with and does not stress or affect the bar
at all.
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WILL NOT KINK, CORRODE OR RUST
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WILL NOT BREAK WHILE FISHING – GUARANTEED
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TROLLS ANYWHERE; FLAT LINES, SHORT OR LONG RIGGERS
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TROLLS GREAT AT VERY SLOW SPEEDS TO OVER 10 KNOTS
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DOES NOT TUMBLE, PLOW OR TANGLE
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IS BIG FISH RIGGED, WITH HEAVY MAIN LEADERS
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TINY MODELS CAN BE FISHED WITH VERY LIGHT LINE, ALL THE WAY UP TO 80#
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WILL NOT DAMAGE BOAT FINISHES OR FISHERMEN
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NEW BARS FOR ‘08
ALL PRO TIP!
SUPER FRYBARS!
LITTLE BARS FOR BIG FISH
Gamefish of all kinds, but especially all members of the tuna family and dolphin/dorado spend a great deal of time feeding
on small-to-tiny bait – far more than most fishermen realize because they are trolling lures that are too big. The reason
big fish crave little bait is simple and natural and is in fact, the same one that explains why the biggest of the whales eat
nothing but - small fin and other forms of tiny bait have a much higher protein-to-body weight ratio than larger fin bait.
The latter have much higher fat-to-body weight ratios and fat is not a desirable building or energy block for fish. So,
when the fish have a choice, they instinctively choose the small, protein-rich fodder over the bigger stuff, which in most
cases is also feeding on the tiny bait too, and for the same reason. Troll lures that are too big during these common times
and you are not going to catch any fish, or catch just a few. YOU MUST MATCH THE HATCH IF YOU WANT TO
CATCH FISH! BURN THIS FACT INTO YOUR MEMORY AND APPLY IT TO EVERY FISHING TRIP AND
YOU WILL CATCH A HELLUVA LOT MORE FISH!!
THIS TINY SIZE THING CREATES A HUGE PROBLEM FOR THE AVERAGE FISHERMAN
Plain and simple, that problem is matching the many tiny hatches with lures. Most fishermen don’t even carry single
lures small enough to interest fish zeroed in on tiny bait in the first place. And in fact, it is almost impossible for gamefish
to even spot single tiny lures in the typical trolling spread, so even if anglers troll some tiny, single baits, the odds are that
no fish will see and hit them. Gamefish don’t look for individual little baits, they look for schools or pods of them!
NEW!
THE ANSWER TO “THE LITTLE BAIT BLUES”, SUPER FRYBARS
This is the deluxe MEATBALL SUPER FRYBAR teaser pattern. The center leader on this bar and all other FryBars is 150# test
because at times, BIG FISH hit it. The color selection is on the right..
Actual size Fry Squid
Hopefully, you can imagine how terrific this little bar looks when trolled and how it represents a highly visible pod of
FIFTEEN tiny baits as opposed to just one to attract and catch fish. And that is exactly what happens, over and over again
for sharp trollers who are ready with the only lures that will catch piles of fish on those many tiny bait days. Ready to
fish all the way up to 80# gear, these little bars are also absolutely perfect for light tackle fans who want the power of
spreaderbars in their corner. FRYBARS are also priceless when it comes to making bait such as mackerel, skipjacks,
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Spaniards, sierra and small tunas. Squash down the hook barbs and use small chasebaits when making bait with FRYBARS.
Fish them on heavy gear and horse that bait in. Wire leader on chasebaits for Spanish Macs and Sierra’s.
10” WIDE MEATBALL FRYBAR – 15 SQUIDS
9” WIDE LITTLE FRYBAR – 8 SQUIDS
THE BIRTH OF OUR NEW SPORTBOAT AND PANGA/SKIFF BARS
The SPORTBOAT AND THE PANGA/SKIFF BARS were developed by an actual California sportboat captain. As a charterboat captain
who has fished SuperBars for thirteen years now, he knew how effective they are and trolls nothing but bars when he is
charter fishing for school species. California sportboats after tuna, dorado and wahoo troll four or five anglers across the
stern until they get hooked up and then they chum them up with live bait. We knew that the bars would be superior to
single lures on sportboats too, but as a sportboat captain himself (Californian for what others call partyboats) our guy
knew that the crews and customers would refuse to use any kind of spreaderbar because of their universal reputation for
tangling and the fact that, even though he knew that ours did not tangle, like all spreaderbars, they LOOK like they will.
And so we took everything that skipper knew about sportboat fishing and bars and came up with the perfect SuperBar for
it – the SPORTBOAT BAR.
The overall leader length not only produces a great running bar, it is just the right length for hooking the chasebait hook
into a harness lug with the leader and squids hugging the bar, so they are out of the way when the rod is racked up. The
upper leader is short for easy handling, deployment and gaffing. This special little bar runs great medium, short and long
and at speeds from six to over ten knots (wire leader on chasebaits in wahoo country...and wahoo LOVE spreaderbars, bythe-way). Built way sportboat tough, you can fish the SPORTBOAT BAR on the lightest gear, right on up to 80# in complete
confidence.
DOUBLE DUTY TOO!
Meaning that even though we call this a “SPORTBOAT BAR “, it makes a great small boat bar. We also make a smaller, 6” wide
version, our PANGA/SKIFF BAR that is just as effective on little boats and dynamite for traveling fishermen, especially those
who fish pangas. They are so small and compact you could fit a half dozen of them in your shaving kit! If you are Bajabound and you don’t take some PANGA/SKIFF BARS with you, you are forgetting that SuperBars were created and tested there
for literally thousands of days. Not having bars on a trip to the Baja would be one big mistake, Senior! And if you are
panga fishing and you don’t have them you are missing a HUGE bet! At least one top panga fleet, Fisherman’s Fleet in
La Paz already uses these new bars on all of their pangas. Fleet owner, David Jones calls them “incredible fish catchers,
both inshore and offshore! We tested them before putting them on the fleet boats and they blew our minds!” SuperBars
are also standard equipment in three top charterboat fleets, Checkmate, Tail Chaser, and Wild Dorado.
8” WIDE SPORTBOAT BAR
7, 2 ¾” SQUIDS, 6” CHASEBAIT
6” WIDE PANGA/SKIFF BAR
7, 2 ¾” SQUIDS, 6” CHASEBAIT
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The MAGNUM
SPORTBOAT BAR
Followed by an armed, 6” chasebait. This basic configuration is almost the same on the LITTLE, SPORTBOAT AND
PANGA/SKIFF BARS, except the Magnums have eleven squids for a bit bigger presentation. Any size chasebait can be used,
depending on what is being fished for. A killer wahoo and sierra bar, its chasebait must be on wire.
You’ll find UpRiggers and SuperBars on some top Baja panga fleets, like Fisherman’s out of La Paz. Many a blown out
offshore trip has been happily replaced by a day of inshore bar fishing for roosters, wahoo, sierra, skipjack, pargo,
cabrillo, toro, yellowtail, amberjack, grouper and more. Trolled bars consistently fish circles around bait inshore!
OTHER LITTLE BARS
All three of the configurations shown above can be ordered with two bigger sized teaser squids – 3 ½” or 4 ¼”
This is the actual size of the 3 ½” squids found on ITTYBITTY Bars.
And this is the actual size of the 4 ¼” squids found on LITTLEBARS. See price sheet for colors and cost.
This lure is 50% of its real size. The “bill” is put on with a Magic Marker to look like a ballyhoo
Rig either one of those little squids up there a couple of feet in front of a bigger lure that represents a small predator on a
bar or lure, just about to catch and eat it and you’ll trigger instinctive, competitive responses from fish that ignore single
lures that represent a meal that they just aren’t interested in because they aren’t hungry. The Pro Squid above is a mighty
good ballyhoo copy that some of our customers have had great success. It not only looks like a ‘hoo, it feels like one.
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Here is our new SPORTBOAT BAR with six different chasebaits that make it six different lures. How’s that for versatility?
BY POPULAR DEMAND, INTRODUCING GREENDEMONS,
OUR VERSION OF THE GREEN MACHINE
Many of our customers who have fallen in love with our XT-11 composite SuperBars have repeatedly asked us to make
the above. Well, here are our versions, THE BIG GREENDEMONS and THE LITTLE GREENDEMONS.
Twelve and nine inch DEMONS.
Invented and manufactured by Sevenstrand Company in California and called “The Green Machine”, this type of
wonderful fish catcher is only popular on the east coast of the U.S. It isn’t just popular in the east, it is immensely so.
Some sharp west coasters and fishermen from other areas are beginning to discover how deadly they truly are (a major
Mexican tuna tournament has been won twice bait and switch fishing with Little GREENDEMON bars, but of course, no
one admits it). The twelve inch bar is the most popular back east and there are those who will tell you that size is all you
need, but we absolutely don’t agree with that – there are many times when the 9 inch model will outfish the bigger one.
DEMONS ON SUPERBARS
VERSUS OLD FASHIONED METAL BARS – NO CONTEST!
“Machine-type” lures are very light and have very little water resistance due to their streamlined shape and lack of action.
This presents problems when they are rigged on ordinary metal bars that are heavy and more importantly, that cut through
the air, instead of creating an airfoil effect that causes the bar to “float” over the surface of the water, like SUPERBARS do.
Because of this, a metal “Green” bar can only be trolled from certain positions and at certain speeds in order to keep the
bar itself out of the water. Not so with a SUPERBAR!. Put simply, GREENDEMONS run great off light, flexible SUPERBARS and
you can fish them anywhere in the pattern and at a wide variety of speeds. You’ll love how they run and you’ll love our
prices, too!
TOURNAMENT WINNING GREENDEMON TOURNAMENT BARS
Because of heavy metal spreaderbars and their negative effect on the fight of gamefish, the IGFA has banned the use of
spreaderbars with the hooks attached. This was a great disappointment to us – not because it made fishing bars in
tournaments more difficult, but because it might encourage other competitors to learn how we always fish tournaments,
especially ones for the biggest tuna. What follows has been a deep, dark secret of ours and a handful of the
best tournament tuna fishermen on the planet for five years now. In that time, the biggest tuna tournament of them all has
been won twice using the method and not long ago the rules had to be changed for the tuna division of The Stars and
Stripes Tournament in Cabo (100% of the proceeds go to needy children in Mexico and California - over two million
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dollars raised for that cause over the last two years! This is a BIG one for a great cause!) after Captain Fred and his team
took all three places in the Tuna Division running on one engine for three quarters of the contest! The rules were
changed after this unprecedented sweep to allow for only one winner per boat, per division! This is the deadliest tuna
tournament trolling technique ever invented and it is murder on marlin, too!
ALL PRO TIP!
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ONLY ONE TUNA, THE BIGGEST, MEANS ANYTHING IN A TUNA TOURNAMENT
CATCHING ANY OTHER TUNA IS A TERRIBLE WASTE OF TIME – A LOSER’S GAME!
FISH WITH “ARMED” LURES AND YOU ARE GOING TO GET HOOKED UP WITH WORTHLESS TUNA, OVER AND OVER AGAIN
AND ARE GOING TO WASTE TIME FIGHTING AND LANDING THEM. THIS IS NOT ONLY A LOSER’S GAME, IT IS A FOOL’S GAME
WHEN IT COMES TO TOURNAMENT FISHING!
TROLL A CERTAIN NUMBER OF HOOKLESS GREENDEMON TOURNAMENT BARS THE RIGHT WAY AND IN THE RIGHT
POSITIONS AND YOU WILL NOT HOOK UP AND WASTE TIME ON “REGULAR” TUNA – NOT A ONE! ZERO WASTED TIME! DITTO
FOR MARLIN, SAILS, DORADO, OR WHATEVER.
DONE RIGHT, YOU WILL SEE AND WITHIN SECONDS HOOK ANY AND ALL BIG TUNA THAT SHOW IN YOUR PATTERN WITH
NO MORE THAN A FLICK OF THE WRIST.
SORRY...ONLY FOR GREEN DEMON TOURNAMENT BAR CUSTOMERS!
TRUTH IS, THE MACHINE IS POPULAR BUT WAY OVER RATED...AND TOO MUCH MONEY, TO BOOT!
Captain Fred says, “Yes, we sell Green Machines, but only because they are popular and people want us to carry them,
but I think that hollow squids are great alternatives to Green Machines. I vastly prefer a green, hollow squid to Green
Machines for chasebaits on spreaderbars or as single lures with birds in front of them. The squids are hard heads, like
the machines, the hollow squids are soft, like the real thing so the fish hold onto them longer and will actually eat them.
They even collapse in gamefish mouths like real baits do, leaving just the hook in there for great hookups, they look a lot
more like a real squid or even (blue and white) ballyhoo, they come in many more and far better colors and sizes, can be
as heavy or light as you want them to be, are a snap to rig, and cost a helluva lost less than the Machines. Green
Machines may be popular and all, but that’s tradition, not performance speaking. No machines for me – squid only!
TAKE A LOOK AT WHAT SQUIDS LOOK LIKE ON ONE OF OUR DAISYBARS
Looks good, doesn’t it? Pick your chasebait size and you can buy three or four of these for the price of one, skinny,
poorer performing and vastly more expensive Green Machine daisy chain with a few teasers on it. It’s a no brainer!
CEDAR PLUG COLORED SQUIDS
Another thing that we asked our squid supplier to make for us was cedar plug colored squids. We just had to have a squid
that was the same color as those wonderful cedar plugs that we have all used for years. And they made us a great one, but
no wonder – they are the original and biggest manufacturers of cedar plugs! The natural “squid look” of the cedar plug is
common knowledge. Can you imagine what whole packs of them on spreaderbars do to the fish?
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WHAT ABOUT THE ACTION?
Good question! The squid-like color of a wet cedar plug is without a doubt part of the attraction of cedar plugs. But it is
true, or at least we think that it is, that the action of the cedar plug is a also a big part of why it is so effective. The squids
on a spreaderbar have that great color down pat, but they don’t have the same action as a straight cedar plug. However,
bars have proven over and over again that the way that hollow squids swim on a them is mighty attractive to gamefish, so
we consider the shift from the action of a single cedar plug to that put out by a SuperBar to be an even trade-off. And hey,
if you believe that the action of a real cedar plug is important, just rig one up as a chasebait, or have us do it for you!
And the effect of packs of cedar plugs in a pattern???? Don’t even go there!!!
Just as you might imagine, whole schools of cedar plug imitators with either a different colored “straggler”, or a bigger
chasebait (for marlin, big tunas and wahoo) that mimics a small gamefish or even a real cedar plug chasing the cedar
plug teasers raise fish like no single cedar plug or even daisy chain of them ever could. As usual, wire for wahoos.
This bar is a great producer when the smaller squid that are so common around the world are present and the fish are
locked onto them. Some might think that tuna are the main fans of cedar plug SuperBars and they do love them dearly,
but everything eats squid and you are likely to have anything, right on up to marlin and sails eat them, so rig your tackle
accordingly. If there are marlin about, change the chasebait to a bigger squid and add another one to two feet to the
chasebait leader. 9 or 12 inch “chasers” are great for whites & striped marlin and the 15 and 20” are blue slayers!
ALL PRO TIP FOR BILLFISHERMEN!
WHAT TO DO WHEN A MARLIN OR SAILFISH COMES UP ON A BAR
Top Cabo charter captain and longtime bar user Captain TJ Dobson of Gata Gordo gives this advice when a marlin or sail
pops up behind a bar, “Turn your back and keep driving. In Cabo it is the sails that are the hardest to hook up on a
dropback bait, but if you leave them alone they will peck away at a bar until they get hooked. Same thing with striped
marlin. Have faith...once they get after a bar they don’t quit until they get it!.”
Captain Fred says, “TJ is absolutely right. Spreaderbars are terrific billfish catchers, the best by far as far as I’m
concerned. They outperformed marlin lures so much on my charterboat that I quit trolling the lures altogether and
trolled six bars and two ballyhoo or ballyhoo colored squids only. We caught literally thousands of blue, black, striped,
marlin and sailfish on bars. I not only learned what great lures they are, I discovered what TJ said, that the best thing to
do when a marlin or sail comes up on a bar is...NOTHING! There is nothing about a bar or it’s chasebait to spook a
fish that bills it – it’s soft and feels real, so the fish stays after it until he catches it, he crushes the bait’s head to kill it, it
“squishes”, just like the real deal so he won’t try to spit it, like a hard or even a softhead lure, and there’s nothing left in
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that billfish’s mouth but a very sharp hook...Let the boat set the hook and go ahead and catch the fish. And the best part
is you will not lose him unless you bust him off or drive over him!
DID YOU BILLFISH HOUNDS READ THAT?!
We’re talking near-100% hookup AND landing ratios on hollow squid spreaderbars, folks! That is not only utterly
impossible with marlin lures, it even beats natural baits! I hope you bill fishermen are listening! And for cryin’ out
loud, DON’T put a marlin lure on a bar as a chasebait – why in the world would you EVER want to go from a near
100% hookup/landing ratio back down to the far, far lower ratios produced by marlin lures?! Run them squids and wait
for “the squish” – you’re gonna LOVE the results! You’ll find all of the information on this in Fred’s new marlin book.
ALL PRO TIP!
PUT YOUR BARS WHERE THEY WILL CATCH THE MOST FISH!
They say that one picture is worth a thousand words. If that were so, no explanation would be needed with the one that
follows, but what this scene, shot from a purse seiner’s spotter plane shows is too important not to include some
commentary with because we don’t want anyone to miss the extremely important point that it makes. (We know the size
and quantity of these tuna because not long after this shot was taken the seiner arrived and wrapped the whole school, the
sad side of this great shot.)
See where it’s happening? Put your lures where the action is!
Here is the original photo
ARE YOU SURE THAT YOU WANT TO KEEP FISHING THAT STINGER OR WHISKEY LINE?? NOT US!
You catch fish on your stinger, right? So why ask this seemingly silly question? The photo clearly shows “where the
action is” when a school of feeders comes in and attacks a meatball of bait. In this case the stinger lure would be way
back there with the stragglers – fish that obviously aren’t feeding in the first place, so why put a bar or lure back there?
Second, if you do get hooked up that fish is much further away from the boat and you are giving it a running start that
none of the other fish that you have hooked up in “The Action Zone” get. And would that stinger lure get bit if it was in
among the others, where the real action is happening? You’re kidding, of course! The chances are, though, that none of
the fish lagging behind the school are feeders and that long lure isn’t going to get bit many times on this sort of stop.
YEAH, BUT WHAT ABOUT THOSE TIMES THE STINGER DOES GET BIT?
Here’s what...YOU HAVE ALMOST CERTAINLY MISSED GETTING A MULTIPLE HOOKUP, THAT’S
WHAT! Remember that tuna (and most other gamefish) travel in schools. If the fish are the right kind and in a feeding
mood, or if you are trolling the right kind of lure back there to turn non-feeders on, the very first fish to strike is going to
be one of the school leaders at the front. WHEN YOU HOOK THAT FISH, IT BEATS FEET, TAKES OFF AND THE
REST OF THE SCHOOL DOES WHAT COMES NATURALLY AND FOLLOWS IT...AWAY, NOT UP TO
YOUR FULL SPREAD! If you are typical (like we were), you happily fight and land or lose one fish out of the seven or
eight that you don’t realize that you probably would have caught if you hadn’t been trolling that single lure way back
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there in the back forty! Sorry to all of you stinger fans out there, but this makes absolutely no sense whatsoever and if it
happens on an otherwise slow day it can and probably will mean a one fish day versus six, seven, or eight or even more.
HOW CAPTAIN FRED DISCOVERED THIS
“I used to love fishing a stinger and still do on occasion, but I never fish it way back where I used to – except for a special
situation that I will explain in a bit - because of what was discussed above. One of the advantages of a tuna tower and one
of many reasons why I wouldn’t have a boat without one is the incredible view one gets from it. You can watch the lures
work and if you are really watching, see just about every fish or school of them that comes to your spread and see for
yourself exactly how they react and hit. It was as common as daylight on my boat to hear me or one of the crew up in the
tower bellow out, “Coming! Coming!”, followed by, “Tunas!”, “Big Tunas!”, “Dorado!”, “Marlin!”, “vela (Sail)!”, or
“Wah(by the time we got the “hoo!” part out there was usually a reel or reels screaming. God I love those things!)
It used to drive most of our customers nuts when whoever was watching the pattern started that, “Coming! Coming!”
stuff, especially when we had spotted fish way back there coming up the wake, which is where most tuna and marlin come
from – behind or behind and below, with the main exception being dorado and wahoo, which can come in from anywhere.
Sometimes it took the fish pretty long to get up and into the pattern and by then the two of us up in the tower would be
yelling things like, “Oh yes, here they come! Tunas! Oh man, grandes!”, or “look at ‘em all!” “Get ready! Coming,
coming, coming...Pow! Rrright riggah! Pow! Left riggah! Pow, pow, pow, pow! There go the flats! Hooka, hooka,
hooka!” (If you don’t freak out when you get covered by a school of tuna that you have watched come in from way back
there, don’t fish with us! Hell, I’m shaking just writing this!)
TOWER TEACHINGS
It was during my early days down in Cabo, where I fished almost every day, year-round and where yellowfin tuna are a
year-round target that I saw what happened and happened a lot when we trolled a long stinger bar or lure. The first time
should have been all that it should have taken, but we kept dragging the long bait for a few more days, I guess because we
didn’t want to believe what we saw wasn’t a fluke before ditching the stinger we’d used and caught fish off of forever.
That first time was when we had a big school of big tunas coming in on top, hell-bent up the wake. It was tide change
time and the fish were racing each toward us and our lures when the lead fish attacked the stinger lure, got hooked up and
we watched it take off to the right, with the rest of the school speeding off with him! I didn’t make the logical connection
on that one, but what happened was so clear and easy to see that it stuck in my mind like a jagged piece of glass.
Hoping that what happened with those tuna wasn’t a common thing, I quit driving for the next few days and just stood up
in the tower, looking at the long lure and behind it. And damned if it didn’t happen again! And again! When the stinger
shortstopped a pod of a dozen lit up striped marlin (they are school fish and multiples are common if you know what
you’re doing), I yanked it and we quit fishing with the damned thing. As it has been with a few other things that I had
done for years and thought were good, but it turned out weren’t, I got a sick thinking about all of the times that this had
happened in the past and on a slow day that one stinger fish had cost us the kind of multiple bites that we all fish for and
that as a charter captain, I counted on to catch four-to-six anglers a bunch of fish during a nine hour day.
Bear in mind that the fish only see the water – not the boat or sky above.
My “sky lab”. A priceless classroom!
No one will ever convince me that stingers are worth a damn and that they don’t cost you a lot of fish, especially tunas
and smaller billfish; I have seen it with my own two eyes, over and over again. And what follows still convinces me that
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stingers cost you far more fish than they catch for you. There were times down in Cabo when the tuna fishing simply got
too good and the multiple hookups that are the norm for us were too much for our customers and they were getting beaten
up big time. The limit is five per boat, so it was a rare day when we didn’t limit on them and wound up releasing a lot of
fish. We prided ourselves on the numbers of billfish and other species that we caught regularly and if we beat up our
customers too badly on the tunas, they might want to call it a day and in our case, that was a bad, not a good thing.
That’s when the stinger goes back out. The reason? Because it did shortstop pods of tuna from coming up the wake and
into the full pattern and covering our poor customers up. We still got covered once in a while by fish that came up
directly under the lures, but the stinger cut way down on the tuna multiples and let us try to finish out the day with some
of the other glory species. So I still fish the stinger once in a while, but not for the same reason that other fishermen do. I
know that it is traditional fishing heresy and a lot of fishermen aren’t going to agree with me, but I strongly suggest you
quit missing out on multiples because of that stinger too. Either that or run it no longer than your long rigger lures.
And finally, take a good look at those feeding tunas and start packing The Zone with SuperBars. Hooka, hooka, hooka!
THE ENTIRE SUPERBAR LINEUP
SPECS FOR FULLY RIGGED SUPERBARS
1. ALL SUPERBARS COME WITH A RIGGED CHASEBAIT.
2. ALL ITTY BITTY BARS HAVE 100# WING LEADERS AND 200# MAIN LEADERS.
3. ALL LITTLE BARS HAVE 100# WING LEADERS AND 300# MAIN LEADERS.
4. ALL 6-12” SQUID BARS HAVE 150# TEST WING LEADERS & 300 OR 400# TEST MAIN LEADERS.
5. 15-20” GIANT MONSTERBARS HAVE 200# TEST WING LEADERS & 500# TEST MAIN LEADERS.
6. ALL SUPERBARS HAVE A SNAP IN THE LAST TEASER FOR CHANGING CHASEBAITS.
THE PRO SQUIDS STILL RULE WHEN IT COMES TO HAULING ASS
This is a pair of Pro Squids. This is the only true “all speed” squid that we know of and it is without a doubt the best hi
and low speed squid ever made. In spite of their much higher cost, Pro Squids and ProBars will remain the choice of
professionals who just have to have the best, speed merchants who want to cover water, and wahoo specialists, no matter
what the cost. That’s just the way that those guys are.
This is a ProBar. It comes in one configuration only and this is it. It comes in five proven teaser colors only. It comes in
one squid size only – 8 ½”, that perfect size that is so often the choice of gamefish of all sizes. Its streamlined, ballyhoolike shape – and very much like that of the legendary Green Machine, only much lighter weight (easily weighted) - is
another important factor in why it gets bit so well. And that sleek shape is why it is the best hi speed spreaderbar of them
all. Fred named this one ProBar from the first day that he made it because having used it for a long time on his
charterboat, he was sure that they would be THE choice of top, professional charter captains and hardcore privateers
and he was right – that is who buys them. Year in and year out, the Pros are one of our best sellers...looks like there are
more pros out there than many would think! It trolls at all speeds, up to and including eighteen knots when sea conditions
allow. It is the most expensive squid of them all. And the best. WE DO NOT SELL THIS SQUID ANY OTHER WAY
THAN RIGGED ON A SUPERBAR, DAISYBAR, SPIDER, OR RUCKUS RAISER, OR AS A CHASEBAIT.
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PROBAR ORDER FORM
MAIN LEADER – 400#
COLOR
STANDARD CHASEBAIT
PRICE
PURPLE
HOT PINK
$100.00
HOT PINK
PURPLE
$100.00
$100.00
BLUE/WHITE PURPLE
DORADO
PURPLE
$100.00
SQUID (BROWN/ORANGE) HOT PINK
$100.00
ORDER QTY
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$TOTAL_________
***MIGHTY MEATBALL© VERSIONS OF SUPERBARS***
Fifteen to twenty squid “Meatball” versions are available in the small bars, right up to and including the 4 ¼” Little Bars.
If the fish are on little bait, and tuna so often are, a spread of just six Meatball bars can put an incredible one hundred
twenty “baits” in your pattern! That probably equals the number of baits trolled by about twenty-five typical
competing boats! Does this raise whole schools of fish? You’re kidding, right? That’s like having your entire bait
tank and more “chumming” in your pattern! These bars are extremely labor intensive and we would love to quit
making them, but we can’t, because they are among our most popular models.
Here are two Mighty Meatball© versions in action. Do forty lures trolled closely together in little schools raise a lot of
fish? Not a single doubt about it. And remember, those forty lures are being trolled off of TWO RODS! Fish them off
of an UpRigger and you will only take up ONE ROD HOLDER AND RUN FORTY LURES! With a pair of
UpRiggers you can troll an amazing EIGHTY lures from TWO rod holders! We love to fish them, but we hate to make
them because of the great deal of labor involved.. The photo on the right is the ultimate tangle test – a Meatball Bar
flying off of an outrigger while we are running. This is exactly how we “stow” our bars when we are anywhere near fish.
I think that you’ll agree that if they were ever going to tangle it would be here and they just don’t.
FRYBAR ORDER FORM
>>MARLIN RIGGING NOT AVAILABLE<<
The tiny bars that are the best and only answer to fish concentrating on tiny forage. A must have for all tuna fishermen.
# & SIZE TEASERS
10 – 2 ¾”
“
“
“
“
“
COLOR
BLK/PURP
PINK
CHARTR.
GRN/BLK
GLITTER
WHITE
STANDARD CHASEBAIT
3 ½” PINK/WHITE
“ BLK/PURPLE
“ PINK
“ CHARTREUSE
“ BLK/PURPLE
“ BLK/GREEN
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PRICE
$65.00
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$TOTAL
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$TOTAL
**MEATBALL
$75.00 ______
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$TOTAL
ITTY BITTY SUPERBARS
Itty Bitty Bars are the next size up in our selection of small bars with small teasers. The squids on these bars are 3 ½”.
Itty Bitty Bar. Check the tiny bar! Real squid from an 80# bigeye.
Note the eye on the real squids and the teasers.
Actual size squid
ITTY BITTY BAR ORDER FORM
>>MARLIN RIGGING OPTIONAL, PLUS $4.00<<
# & SIZE TEASERS
7–3½”
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“
COLOR
STANDARD CHASEBAIT
BLK/PURP
PINK/WHITE
PINK/WHT
BLK/PURPLE
BLK/PINK
PINK/WHITE
DORADO
BLK/PURPLE
BLUE/PINK/WHT BLK/PURPLE
PRICE
$65.00
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“
$TOTAL
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$TOTAL
**MEATBALL
$85.00 ______
“ ______
“ ______
“ ______
“ ______
$TOTAL
LITTLE SUPERBARS
LITTLE SUPERBARS -
another step up in teaser size.
Standard LITTLE BAR, rigged with eight, 4 ¼” squids.
HOT PRO TIP!
Deadly for albacore all over the world. An average day’s catch off Oregon during the ’06 season. Great for inshore and
offshore tuna that are locked onto small bait, which happens often. Yellowfin over 200# have been taken on Little bars!
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Actual squid size.
LITTLE BARS ORDER FORM
# & SIZE TEASERS
SEVEN – 4 ¼ ”
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COLOR
STANDARD CHASEBAIT
BLACK/RED PINK/WHITE
PINK/WHT
BLACK/PURPLE
BLACK/PURP PINK/WHITE
DORADO
BLACK/RED
BLUE/PINK/WHT
BLACK/PURP
PRICE ORDER QTY **MEATBALL
$70
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$100_______
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$TOTAL_______
$TOTAL______
THE SPORTBOAT BAR
SPORTBOAT BAR ORDER FORM
>>MARLIN RIGGED & READY<<
# & SIZE TEASERS
SEVEN - 3”
SEVEN - 3”
SEVEN - 3”
SEVEN - 3”
SEVEN - 3”
SEVEN - 3”
COLOR
PINK
BLK/GRN
CHARTREUSE
GLITTER
BLK/PURP
WHT/GLITTER
CHASEBAIT SIZE & COLOR
6” BLACK AND PURPLE
6” GREEN
6” GREEN
PRICE ORDER QTY
$39
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$39
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$39
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$39
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$39
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$39
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PANGA/SKIFF BAR ORDER FORM
Fisherman’s Fleet, La Paz, Baja California Sur
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TOTAL
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$TOTAL______
PANGA/SKIFF BAR
# & SIZE TEASERS
SEVEN - 2 ¾”
SEVEN - 2 ¾”
SEVEN - 2 ¾”
SEVEN - 2 ¾”
SEVEN - 2 ¾”
SEVEN - 2 ¾”
COLOR
PINK
BLK/GRN
CHARTREUSE
GLITTER
BLK/PURP
WHT/GLITTER
CHASEBAIT SIZE & COLOR
6” GREEN
6” GREEN
PRICE ORDER QTY
$39
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$39
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$39
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$39
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$39
_______
$39
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TOTAL
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$TOTAL______
THE SIX INCH SQUID BAR
Six inch squid are the favorite fodder of a great variety of game fish, from little stuff right on up to big tunas, dorados and
billfish. These bars are another seven teaser diamond pattern with a chasebait. The main leader is 300# mono. The bar
on the right is a green machine green model, a tuna killer anywhere that it is fished. Check the special MeatBall offer!!!
SIX INCH SQUID BAR ORDER FORM
MAIN LEADER – 300# - HOOK 8/0
PRICE
ORDER QTY
**MEATBALL SEE BELOW
$65.00
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$85_________ (REG $100.00!)
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$TOTAL
$TOTAL
THIS SPECIAL APPLIES TO ONE COLOR ONLY, THE IMMENSELY POPULAR GREEN MACHINE GREEN. AS
WITH ALL OF OUR BARS EXCEPT THE GREEN DEMONS, LEGITIMATE CHARTER CAPTAINS RECEIVE AN
ADDITIONAL 10% DISCOUNT OFF THE LISTED PRICE, MAKING THE PRICE OF THIS MEATBALL BAR $76. 50.
ORDERS FOR TWO OR MORE DROP THE CHARTER CAPTAIN’S PRICE TO AN EVEN $75 APIECE!
COLOR
RASTA
DORADO
ZUCCHINI
CEDAR PLUG
HOT PINK
PETROLERO
BLUE/WHITE
GRNMACH
BLK/PURP
BLK/GRN
BLK/RED
STANDARD CHASEBAIT
BLACK/RED
BLACK/PURPLE
BLK/GREEN
HOT PINK
BLK/RED
HOT PINK
BLK/RED
BLK/GREEN
HOT PINK
ZUCCHINI
HOT PINK
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NINE INCH SQUID BAR
A nine inch squid bar in green and black ribbing.
Like the Pro Bars, our nine inch bars are the perfect size for many gamefish when they aren’t feeding on the little, tiny
stuff. Like all SUPERBAR! , the nine inchers turn into non-feeder fish dynamite when they are rigged with a bigger twelve,
fifteen or even twenty inch chasebait. If you set them that way, be sure to run them on heavy gear, or you will be sorry!
NINE INCH SQUID BAR ORDER FORM
COLOR
RASTA
DORADO
BLK/GRN
BLUE/WHITE
CEDAR PLUG
GRNMACH
BLK/PURP
BLK/GRN
BLK/RED
STANDARD CHASEBAIT
BLACK/PURPLE
BLACK/PURPLE
RASTA
BLK/RED
BLK/PURPLE
BLK/GREEN
HOT PINK
ZUCCHINI
HOT PINK
PRICE
$70.00
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ORDER QTY
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$TOTAL_______
TWELVE INCH SQUID BAR ORDER FORM
COLOR
STANDARD CHASEBAIT
PRICE
ORDER QTY
RASTA
BLACK/RED
$75.00
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PETROLERO HOT PINK
“
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CEDAR PLUG BLACK/RED
“
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DORADO
BLACK/PURPLE
“
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ZUCCHINI
BLK/GREEN
“
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HOT PINK
BLK/RED
“
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GRN/BLACK RASTA
“
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BLUE/WHITE
GRNMACH
BLK/PURP
BLK/GRN
BLK/RED
BLK/RED
BLK/GREEN
HOT PINK
ZUCCHINI
HOT PINK
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“
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$T0TAL_______
GREENDEMONS
Twelve inch
BIG GREENDEMON
Twelve inch squid chasebait for the twelve inch GREENDEMON
Twelve inch
QUANTITY
BIG GREENDEMON
PRICE
TOTAL
$12,00
$TOTAL________
Nine Inch LITTLE GREENDEMON
QUANTITY
PRICE
TOTAL
$9
$TOTAL_______
TOURNAMENT WINNING GREENDEMON BAIT AND SWITCH BARS
FOR $ERIO$ TUNA AND MARLIN TOURNAMENT FI$HERMEN
As you can see, we do not show pictures of these bars. We consider them valuable secret weapons that are potentially
worth great deals of money and prestige and we feel that only those who own them should know what these special bars
look like, the details on how they are rigged and how they are used to cull out the biggest and best fish only. That said,
each set of GREENDEMON BAIT AND SWITCH BARS comes with a full description on how to use them, with photos.
SIZE
9”
12”
QTY
____
____
PRICE
$150
$170
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TOTAL
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$TOTAL______
OH YESSSS! MONSTERBAR TIME!
©
THESE BIG SQUIDS ARE NO JOKE! THEY ARE BIG FISH CANDY!
The big Sea Striker 15” Squid
The downright monstrous Sea Striker 20” Squid
Giant Tuna fishermen already know. Blue and black marlin fishermen should know, but many don’t. Shark trollers?
They should know too (in fact, most mako shark trollers are constantly looking for a bait this big to attract the bigger
makos and of course, giant threshers eat BIG baits). But like the marlin fishermen, most shark trollers don’t know what
those giant tuna fishermen do. And neither do those who cherish a true gator of a wahoo way over a hundred pounds –
like these...
200# plus on commercial, but not IGFA scales
The new world record – 184#, Cabo San Lucas
Just look at the heads of those two wahoo! Now, do yourself a huge favor and THINK ABOUT what you are seeing and
what it is screaming out to you! We aren’t talking giant bluefin or big blue or black marlin here; we’re just talking
wahoo! Now YOU tell ME that that biggest squid up there is too big a meal for these monster ‘hoo. Come on, just try!
The absolute truth is, those big squids are EXACTLY what a wahoo half the size of these should logically pursue and eat.
TIME TO WAKE UP AND SMELL THE BIG FISH!
Yes, this is probably new thinking for you, but it is the absolute truth! This is one of those things in fishing that simply
escapes what the average fisherman (and that is why he is average) thinks. “Big baits for big fish” is just as important a
big game fishing expert’s credo as “Match the hatch” and in fact they say the very same thing! Of course, most
fishermen ignore that first one, to say nothing of the second. I’m sorry, but that is downright stupid, period!
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ALL PRO TIP!
HERE IS THE BIGGEST FAVOR YOU’LL GET IN YOUR BIG GAME FISHING LIFE! USE IT!
If you want to catch huge fish – be they tuna, blue marlin, black marlin, striped marlin, huge
dorado, monster wahoo or big makos or threshers, start trolling Monster SuperBars NOW!
THE UTTERLY COMPELLING REASONS TO START TROLLING MONSTERBARS
1. They truly are “BIG” lures; most so called “Big marlin lures” simply ARE NOT!
2. The new, compact Generation II MONSTERBARS are far easier to troll than the big, old-fashioned, cumbersome metal bar
configurations of the past (and they are far less expensive too) and they are much easier to troll than many single lures.
They run great anywhere in your pattern.
3. Because they are soft, natural feeling and collapse in a big fish’s mouth (so that they are nearly “all hook” at hookup
times), HOOK UP RATIOS ARE FAR BETTER ON MONSTERBARS THAN ON BIG, HARD OR SOFT MARLIN
LURES THAT ACTUALLY PROP A MARLIN’S MOUTH OPEN AS HE IS TRYING TO CRUSH ITS “HEAD”
TO KILL IT. And giant wahoo can’t hold them in their jaws and not get hooked, so when they bite, you get ‘em!
4. The pods of big baits on MONSTERBARS , or a pod of smaller squids being chased by one big monster are far more natural
and thus more natural and exciting to big fish than “big” single lures.
5. If you want to change the size or color of a “big” marlin lure you have to either replace it with a new one, or you have
to re-skirt the one that you are fishing with – not so with a MONSTERBAR.
6. If you want to change size or color on a MONSTERBAR, all you have to do is snap one chasebait off and snap another one
on. Think about that for a bit! And start adding up the cost factor on marlin lures compared to just one bar with multiple
chasebaits. There is a huge difference in versatility, performance and cost!
Both of these squids feature our incomparable pro stiff rig developed by Fred. They cause devastating hook sets.
MONSTERBAR
PRICES
FIVE SQUID GENERATION II, FIFTEEN INCH MONSTERBAR ORDER FORM
THESE BARS ARE CUSTOM MADE TO ORDER – PREVAILING LEAD TIMES APPLY
MAIN LEADER – 500# MONO – 12/0 HOOK
COLOR
STANDARD CHASEBAIT
RASTA
BLACK/GREEN
DORADO
BLACK/GREEN
ZUCCHINI
HOT PINK
HOT PINK
SQUID (PETROLERO)
PETROLERO
HOT PINK
BLK/GRN
RASTA
BLUE/WHT
HOT PINK
GRN MACH GRN
ZUCCHINI
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PRICE
$120.00
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ORDER QTY
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$TOTAL_______
GENERATION II, TWENTY INCH SQUID MONSTERBAR ORDER FORM
THESE BARS ARE CUSTOM MADE TO ORDER – PREVAILING LEAD TIMES APPLY
MAIN LEADER – 500# MONO – 12/0 HOOK
COLOR
STANDARD CHASEBAIT PRICE
RASTA
BLACK/GREEN
$140.00
DORADO
BLACK/GREEN
“
ZUCCHINI
HOT PINK
“
HOT PINK
SQUID (PETROLERO)
“
PETROLERO
HOT PINK
“
BLK/GRN
RASTA
“
BLUE/WHT
HOT PINK
“
GRN MACH GRN ZUCCHINI
“
ORDER QTY
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$TOTAL________
ALL PRO TIP!
FRED’S PERSONAL FAVORITE BIG BAR FOR BIG MARLIN, TUNA AND WAHOO
Captain Fred is a true believer in both the “match the hatch” and “big lure/big fish” rules, but of course, only when they
apply. The first rule, “match the hatch”, is a constant one and although logical and easy to understand, many fishermen
have a very hard time applying it – especially the upper and lower ends of the bait size scale. We have already addressed
and given you the solutions to the tiny bait situation with the best lures in the world for those times, little spreaderbars.
Now, here is the answer to those times (and again, they happen much more often than most fishermen realize) when big
fish are zeroing in on and hitting big bait – sometimes even the gamefish that you are catching - and you don’t even
realize what is going on, or you think you have to use big live or dead baits like small tunas and skipjacks to get bit.
PICTURE A VERY COMMON SCENARIO NOWADAYS – YOU HAVE BEEN HERE, by Captain Fred...
You have found tuna, a lot of them. You ran a mixed size spread of bars right away, caught a fish, pumped his stomach
out with the washdown hose and saw that they were eating tiny baits. You are a sharpie and put out a monochromatic
spread of little bars and are cleaning house on small-to-medium school tunas and a skipjack or two. This is today’s
typical mixed size school of tunas – bands of purse seine net survivors that have joined together in what used to be a
rarity, a school of tunas running from small ones, to some very big guys.
YOU HAVEN’T BEEN HERE...
I’m along today, but I’ve been down below sleeping since before this bite started (yeah, right). I finally stumble out into
the pit and see that you have done a very good job of analyzing what is going on and setting up your spread to take
advantage of it. I ask you if you have seen any big fish among the feeders and you tell me yes, you have seen several
really big yellowfin busting bait among the little and school fish, but you haven’t gotten one to bite yet. “Hmmm”, I say
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and ask if you would mind if I put one of my Accurate 70’s out on a long rigger. You say, “of course not” and before you
can ask me anything else, I’ve grabbed the outfit and am attaching a small spreaderbar with what I tell you is a 20” squid
chasing 15” squids MONSTERBAR . I don’t say anything until I have that bar out on a long rigger.
You ask me why I’m violating the Match the Hatch Rule and I tell you that I am not. Instead, I am checking to see if the
Big Bait/Big Fish Rule is on too and if any of the big tunas are doing what I suspect they are; feeding on the small tunas
when they come up and not the same little bait as the smaller fish. “There are almost always a few big cannibals in
today’s mixed size tuna schools, but there usually aren’t many, so fishing just for them and ignoring all of these other
tunas would be silly – especially if you’re a charter. But it’s worth it to put one big predator bar out, just to pick up a cow
or two if they are around during the bite. Plus, we all know that blue marlin love eating yellowfin and skipjack, so the big
bar will get them too, if they are around.
BLAM! ZZZZZZ!
Hookup! BIG tuna! You catch him. Two hundred fifty pounder. Yahoo!
A little later...
BLAM! ZZZZZZ!
Blue marlin! You catch and release her. A nice, 400# fish.
NOW, AREN’T YOU HAPPY YOU BOUGHT THAT 15/20 BAR I LIKE SO MUCH? I THOUGHT SO!
THE 15/20 MONSTERBAR ORDER FORM
THESE ARE CAPTAIN FRED’S FAVORITE COLORS. OTHER COMBINATIONS AVAILABLE
TEASER COLOR
CHASEBAIT COLOR
PRICE
QUANTITY
HOT PINK
PETROLERO
$120
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PETROLERO
PINK
$120
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BLUE/WHITE
DORADO
$120
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DORADO
BLACK/RED
$120
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BLACK/PURP
ZUCHINNI
$120
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ZUCHINNI
BLACK/PURPLE
$120
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$TOTAL_______
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The biggest yellowfin tunas in the world live in Baja waters. Brutes this size and bigger are caught there in good numbers
by those who either stumble across one while trolling for school tuna, marlin, dorado, or whatever, or run across one
while trolling a live skipjack or tuna for big marlin. The majority of the big tuna that are caught intentionally in the Baja
are caught in a relatively few places drifting live skipjack or small tuna. Many huge fish are lost on the lower end
charterboats due to inadequate or poorly maintained tackle. Pick your boat carefully if you want a good shot at one of
these big fish.
HOT PRO TIP!
THIS DOES NOT MEAN THAT LIVE BAIT FISHING IS THE ONLY WAY TO CATCH BIG BAJA COWS!
It just means that many Mexican fishermen and the gringos who don’t know any better than to mimic them do happen to
believe that bait is the only way to catch big Mexican yellowfins and they are absolutely full of donkey dust! It’s just that
drifting around or anchoring on a known tuna bank, soaking baits is the only way these guys know how to catch big tunas.
As close as most of them have ever gotten to those other great ways of catching fish might be telling people that they
don’t work down south. What a crock of crapola!
DONT BUY INTO THE “IT’S DIFFERENT BELOW THE BORDER” BULLSHIT
The best of the Mexican fishermen (and as it is anywhere, that is a long way from all of them and there are plenty of
mediocre and bad ones), have exceptional natural skills in areas such as reading the water, but they generally are way
behind as far as new developments in fishing gear, electronics and techniques are concerned. There are exceptions, but
not a lot. There are many causes for this, not the least of which is the utter lack of any fishing magazines or other print
media written in Spanish to keep the average cruiser crew up-to-date on what is new. A high percentage of them have
very limited English reading skills and so fishing magazines in English couldn’t do those fishermen any good, even if they
could get them. And they have few peers who somehow get exposed to new things and pass them on; instead, knowledge
is passed on from father or uncle to son, and rather than promote learning new things, this simply reinforces most locals’
notions that the old ways are the best ways, which just ain’t so when it comes to many things – including fishing.
ENTER THE NOTORIOUS “GRINGO MEXICAN IN DISGUISE”
“Gringo Mexicans in disguise” are fishermen, usually ones who own their own boats down in Mexico, who have Mexican
crew, or “learned the ropes” from locals who are sometimes sources for bad information – especially on techniques new to
them. Because they for the most part are not well rounded private boat pelagic fishermen and don’t know any better,
these Gringos accept the bullshit that the locals ARE experts and they wind up cloning the way the Mexicans fish and the
things that they believe. By doing this, they simply become “traditional Mexican fishermen in Gringo clothing”. Sadly,
because these guys “have a boat” or “live” or “fish in Mexico a lot”, they automatically achieve a certain amount of
credibility with fellow U.S. fishermen over “how it’s done down there”, when what they should be getting credit for is
knowing “how it has been done down there forever”, which is a whole ‘nother matter. That kind of knowledge should be
a starting point, and with few exceptions, not the only way that you should be fishing down there or anywhere else!
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FROM, “OH NO, NOT THOSE, CAPITAN!”, TO “NO TE VAYA SIN ELLOS!”
I can remember my early days in Cabo when I had a devil of a time getting my crews to first, learn the in’s and out’s of
spreaderbars and second, to put them out instead of their beloved marlin lures. Believe it or not, the same was true for
cedar plugs, which had only become accepted a few years earlier in California. My first crew candidates were typical
experienced Cabo guys who immediately set out selecting the lures that we would fish, backing off the drags on my reels,
and after seeing all of my swaged connectors, preparing to cut them off and replace them with what is called “The
Mexican knot”. The guys automatically thought that they had the typical “rich gringo boat owner who don’t know
nothing about fishing”.
I watched closely for this with new guys, showed them how I wanted things and explained why and then watched some
more. I am the kind of captain who rules his boat. Even after a crew member has earned my trust, he better do it my way,
or the highway and NO ONE tells me what lures I am going to run or how I am going to run them on my boat, so I wound
up bouncing a few aspiring second captains and mates before finding some who decided not to “fight city hall” and put
out the contraptions the crazy gringo insisted on fishing with. And a funny thing happened – when my first two steady
crew saw how many fish we caught on “the contraptions” and the happy customers reacting to all of those ripper surface
strikes and then saw the big tips they gave because of them, I had to make sure that they put a regulation marlin lure or
two out (prototypes that I was testing, or I wouldn’t have cared) or we’d have been trolling all bars. Meanwhile, the
gringos with boats who were schooled or driven by the locals continued to fish like them and got buried by us and a
couple of other boats that I gave bars to. Soon I began to hear my boys saying “Calamar, no te vaya sin ellos!” when on
the radio, telling their buds what we were catching so many fish on. It means, “Spreaderbars, don’t leave home without
them!”
WRAPPING UP THIS HOT PRO TIP
The end of this section is just a reminder that big yellowfin and other large tuna the world over are regularly caught
several ways, not just one. Drifting or anchoring on a known tuna spot is only one of them and a long way from the most
popular or comfortable, especially in tropical climates, where high temperatures and humidity can combine to make it a
mighty uncomfortable way to fish. Chunking is yet another killer technique for big tunas there. There are many who
prefer the proactive, hunting side of trolling for the big guys, not just because trolling is generally a vastly more
comfortable way of fishing than baking away in one spot, but because trolling catches a helluva lot of big tuna – a lot
more, as far as I can see, than are caught drifting live bait. And spreaderbars account for a huge percentage of those trolled
tunas, but not in the Baja, simply because so few use and/or know how to use them. My advice when you go on a big tuna
hunt is to bring along a couple of 15/20 bars or 6/15 DaisyBars with you, make sure that the boat is equipped with the big
rods and reels that you need for big tuna and most important of all, that you will be allowed to troll the bars part of the
time and then do it.
IF YOU GO TO FISH LA PAZ, BOOK WITH FISHERMAN’S FLEET...THEY HAVE AND USE BARS
It is one great fleet that uses bars of all shapes and sizes regularly. David Jones, fleet owner, is one of the friendliest, most
accommodating hosts in all the Baja. We give them our highest recommendation.
A Cabo 340 pound big bar fish on the left. Note the big chasebait. He was eating Humbolt squid. Another near
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350 pound fish on the right, this one caught on a small bar that matched the hatch of small squids that day. As
top anglers around the world know, bars consistently catch big tunas, no matter where they swim and big bars are
pure poison on the big guys.
Here is what can happen when you mix at least one MONSTERBAR in your spread. Here is a very nice canyon catch of
medium-to-very-nice yellowfin and three big bigeye from New Jersey. They represent only three stops that day; two on
the yellowfins and one on the bigeye. Five ‘eyes were hooked up, but only three were landed. The spread was six 9”
SuperBars and two MONSTERBARS. All of the bigeye and two of the yellowfin were hooked up on the MONSTERBAR. This is far
from an unusual event if there are big tunas around and you are trolling the big bars.
The big bars not only catch big tunas, but if there are wahoo around, they love MONSTERBARS.
Be sure to rig your chasebaits on single strand wire if there are wahoo around. And don’t
worry about it spooking the tunas – it won’t. (Photo courtesy of Minerva’s. Thanks, baby)
SPECIAL NOTE FOR BILLFISH FANS
Hopefully you have read Fred’s new “Best Marlin Lures” book and you are interested in using SuperBars to increase
your marlin and sailfish catches. The facts are that most of our bars were designed with marlin, not just tuna in mind.
That is because Fred has always considered SuperBars his best “everything” catchers, so unlike many so-called
spreaderbar manufacturers whose bars are mostly heavy metal copies of the old, original tuna bars that Fred hated fishing
with because they were so hard to pull and to keep out of the water, from tangling, and putting a great deal of stress on the
tackle, the fish, and the angler and so on. This caused him to re-invent the spreaderbar and develop the SuperBars that
you are finding here. Of course, as an all-around angler and charter captain who counted marlin and sailfish among the
most important species that his customers wanted to catch, Captain Archer made sure that his bars, which he tested where
he lived and fished nearly every day, in Cabo San Lucas, were specifically designed to catch the tuna and other pelagics
that tuna bars target, but to be great billfish trolling tools too.
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As he points out in his “Best Marlin Lures” book, Captain Fred has trolled spreaderbars for billfish far, far more than
anyone else ever...if anyone was ever going to come up with excellent designs for billfish while making sure that those
very same bars were great – superior, in fact - for catching all of the other pelagics and even inshore species, it just had to
be him. Remember, he made them for himself first, so you know that they meet the most demanding standards of them all
– his!
You will find bars that have been designed for billfish marked as such in the price sheets. They happen to be the vast
majority, but if you have trouble choosing, Fred considers the DaisyBars, the Spiders and the RuckusRaiser Bugs the best.
Here’s someone you will remember from (or meet when you read the marlin lure book)...
SMASH!
CRUNCH!
GOBBLE!
GOTCHA!
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FRED’S FAVORITE SPREADS IN COMPLETE SETS
THE GREEN SPORTBOAT SET
(GREAT ON PRIVATE BOATS AND FOR TRAVELING ANGLERS TOO!)
Here is a super, all-around choice for sportboat (party boat) fishermen who want to experience the fish-catching power of
spreader bars in a neat little bar that slays them all, big and small. These are among the bars that you could actually stuff
in your back pocket and take along with you on a buddy’s boat and of course, sportboats. And if you are traveling to
Cabo or any other distant hotspot, you can shove this whole set in your back pack and still have room for the everything
else! Try trolling 32 lures off a panga, instead for two-to-four and you will never go back to single lures again!
The little SPORTBOAT BAR itself. It is small, but so strong that we guarantee that it will not break under normal fishing
conditions. It is incredibly light and trolls like a dream at all speeds and in all positions. And versatile? Simply by
snapping off one chasebait and snapping on a different size or color one and you are fishing a completely different lure
without re-tying, or even leaving the rail.
THE GREEN SPORTBOAT BAR SET - WITH TWO EXTRA CHASEBAITS
SPORTBOAT BAR (6” squids)
Two extra 6” Chasebaits
THE GREEN PANGA/SKIFF BAR SET - ALSO WITH TWO EXTRA CHASEBAITS
PANGA/SKIFF BAR 6” squids)
Two extra 6” Chasebaits
ORDER SECTION – SAVE $5
SET #1 GREEN SPORTBOAT BAR SET
$62
QUANTITY ORDERED_______
$62
QUANTITY ORDERED_______
SET #2 GREEN PANGA/SKIFF BAR SET
$TOTAL_______
*****AVAILABLE IN THE ABOVE COLORS ONLY*****
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THE STANDARD OFFSHORE SET SPECIAL
SAVE $90!
We are frequently asked what would be a good combination of bars and chasebaits for general offshore fishing
for tuna, marlin, sails, dorado, wahoo and everything else, so we decided to offer a set of the right size
SuperBars for just that and here it is at a fantastic price.
Two ea., 6 and 9” SuperBars, you pick colors*. Four each, 6 and 9” chasebaits in these colors (8 total).
One each, pink and white and black and purple Little SuperBars. Two extra chasebaits included.
Two Super FryBars and 2 extra chasebaits included.
REGULAR PRICE $790 SALE PRICE $700! SAVE $90!
# OF SETS ORDERED
TEASER COLORS
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TOTAL COST
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$TOTAL________
* Any of our standard colors may be ordered here, but all four big bars must be the same color in order for us
to offer this special. It is for a limited time only and we reserve the right to cancel it at any time without notice.
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MONSTERBAR
©
15/20” BIG TUNA, MARLIN, DORADO, WAHOO & SHARK SET
SAVE $80!!
Just as it is with the “standard” pelagics, we are just as frequently asked for what we think is the best basic
combination of bars for really big fish like the ones in the title up there. Here is the answer, a surprisingly
inexpensive set of bars that really do a job on the biggest fish out there.
15” Monster Squids
20” Monster Squids
4, FOUR SQUID 15/20” MONSTERBARS
This “all around” big bar features three 15” Monster Squids being chased by a twenty inch model. The
qualifying color combinations follow. See sets for chase colors.
CHECK CHOICE
QUALIFYING SETS
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1. An all-squid set of two bars with 15” Petrolero (squid) colored teasers with 20” hot pink chasebaits
& two bars with hot pink teasers & Petrolero chasebaits. BIG TUNA AND MARLIN KILLERS.
2. Two bars with 15” green machine green teasers & the 20” pink/blk/white chasebaits & two bars with
pink/blk/white teasers & green machine chase. BIG TUNA AND MARLIN KILLERS.
3. Two bars with 15” hot pink teasers and 20” green machine green chasebaits with 15”
green machine teasers and 20” hot pink chasebaits. BIG TUNA AND MARLIN SLAYERS.
4. Two bars with 15” pink & white teasers & 20” blue & white chasebaits & two
bars with blue & white teasers & 20” pink & white chasebaits. ALL-AROUND BIG FISH CHOICE.
5. Two bars with 15” black & green teasers & 20” zucchini chasebaits & two bars with 15”
zucchini teasers and 20” black & green chasebaits. ANOTHER GOOD ALL-AROUND SET.
6. Dorado Special. Two bars with 15” dorado teasers and 20” zucchini chasebaits & two
bars with 15” zucchini teasers and 20” dorado chasebaits. IF THERE ARE BLUE MARLIN OR HUGE
DORADO AND WAHOO AROUND, THIS ONE IS FANTASTIC!
REGULAR PRICE, $480 PER SET...SPECIAL PRICE $400! SAVE $80!!!
# OF BARS SELECTED_____
TOTAL COST___________
$TOTAL________
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NEW! DAISYBARS! BARS THAT ONLY WEIGH 1.0-1.6 OZ!
!!!>THESE ARE THE BEST BILLFISH BARS<!!!
LIKE DAISY CHAINS? THEN YOU’RE GONNA LOVE OUR NEW WIDE BODY ONES!
WIDE BODY DAISYBARS are the result of marrying two of the hottest lures on the water, daisy chains and spreaderbars.
The result is a completely new “crossbreed” lure with the best of both of its parents shining through and turning
fish on. Far shorter and wider than its daisy chain “dad”, but far narrower than the standard spreaderbar, the
DAISYBAR turns the typical long, skinny, unnatural line of teasers in a daisy chain into a short, fat, natural looking
and far bigger target for raising and catching fish represented by its “momma”, the spreaderbar. The DAISYBAR puts
more teasers in the pattern while taking up much less space and offers up a far more natural “pod” of bait instead
of an unnatural string of it. The combination is devastating on all kinds of gamefish, right up to and including
marlin and the DAISYBAR is far more effective and easier to troll than the old style daisy chain. They are available in
four sizes that cover both inshore and offshore situations.
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SOME DAISYBAR ADVANTAGES...
Shorten the typical daisy chain length down by 50% or more, drastically reducing the space taken up in
your trolling spread and greatly reducing the tangling that happens with daisy chains, especially on turns.
More teasers that take up less space in the pattern and are more visible to the fish. And you can run them
anywhere in the pattern, from the flats to the ‘riggers. They are also wonderful multiple lures for light
tackle fans, but are built to stand up to the big ones.
Widens the forward part of the chain to create a far more realistic “meatball” look, similar to a
spreaderbar, so fish can see and target it far better than the spread-out teasers on a daisy chain..
Shorter, fatter, more natural size and shape let you run a lot more DAISYBARS than you could regular daisy
chains or big “regulation” bars. The least expensive way to run deadly monochromatic patterns.
Eliminates handlining fish into gaffing range like has to be done with many daisy chains. Just reel ‘em up
and gaff ‘em. No more hassling with and losing fish dealing with long daisy chain leaders. And the
DAISYBAR bar itself can be used as a “handle” to bounce smaller fish.
Much easier to stow than regular long chains or spreaderbars.
3.6 TUNA/ALBACORE/DORADO DAISYBAR
6.9 STANDARD SQUID DAISYBAR
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Lightweight, so now light tackle fishermen and those who prefer spinning tackle have a bar/chain
multiple lure combination that they can troll on their kind of tackle so they can begin seeing the power of
multiple lure fishing for their style of fishing. Our #3.6 DAISYBAR in particular is a great size and weight for
light tackle and spin fishermen, yet it’s strong enough for 80# big game trolling gear.
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Creates a fat, natural school of bait, instead of a long, skinny, unnatural string of them.
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Four sizes, many top colors.
Built with the highest quality hollow squids – Hollow squids are far lighter and so put a lot less pressure
on the gear and the fish, have much better action than heavy, molded squids, they are less expensive and
troll much better at higher speeds.
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NO MORE “SLOW POKE” TROLLING ONLY. DAISYBARS troll like champs, fast OR slow, whatever you and the fish
want that day and leave “Fat Squid Bars” in the dust when the fish want speed. (Especially important for wahoo.)
LIKE CEDAR PLUG DAISY CHAINS? WHO DOESN’T? Well, wait until you try a cedar plug or Petrolero colored
DAISYBAR! It is every bit as effective as real cedars, trolls and handles easier and costs a lot less! Try it, you’ll like it!
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Makes your hottest trolling lures even hotter. Fish a DAISYBAR with our chasebaits, or your favorite daisy
chain chasebait, trolling lure, or even natural baits. Increases the fish appeal of ballyhoo big time!
Available without chasebaits if you are interested in running your own chasebaits instead of ours.
WITH OUR CHASEBAIT OR WITHOUT IT SO YOU CAN USE YOURS
DAISYBAR
BAIT PODS. Want the power of that fat little Bait Pod going for you instead of that skinny string of teasers
you troll now, but you’d rather troll your all-time favorite chasebait or meat instead of our squids? We understand
and it’s no problem. We think our squids are the best, but we don’t force our customers to buy them. Here’s the
way for you to go. Just snap that old favorite of yours or meat on the snap at the rear of the Bait Pod and start
raising more fish on that old winner today! They are an incredible value, too. Check out the prices a bit later.
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Run them anywhere in your pattern. They run great from clipped down short, all the way back to the
long riggers and they take up far less space in the pattern than either a conventional bar or chain.
Every component has been specifically designed by us for this new trolling lure.
This is the actual size of a 3.4 and 3.6 DAISYBAR TOWBAR. It’s tiny, but tough.
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Pro Rigging. We take great pride in it. All of our rigging is the professional grade promised by many and
delivered by few. Please feel free to compare it to anyone else’s...we want you to see the difference!
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EVERY DETAIL OF OUR RIGGING has been developed by us to offer our customers the very best in fish-catching
performance and reliability. We welcome direct comparisons with our competition. Check out our chasebaits.
PRICED TO PLEASE –LESS THAN MANY DAISY CHAINS!
3.6 DAISYBAR ... TUNA/ALBACORE/DORADO SPECIAL
***200# CENTER LEADER...150# WING LEADERS...9/0 MUSTAD FORGED HOOK***
3.6 DAISYBAR...3 INCH TEASERS, 6 INCH CHASEBAIT
>MARLIN RIGGING OPTIONAL<
3.6 TEASER, ACTUAL SIZE
3.6 CHASEBAIT, ACTUAL SIZE
ACTUAL SIZE OF THE TEASERS AND CHASEBAIT...TALK ABOUT SWEET! EVERYTHING IN THE OCEAN EATS THIS
SIZE BAIT, ESPECIALLY THE TUNA, DORADO AND OTHER SCHOOL FISH. A FLEEING POD OF THESE LITTLE
FELLOWS ATTRACTS THEM ALL, BIG AND SMALL TO THE CHASEBAIT CHASING THEM!
3” TEASER COLORS
Hot Pink
Green/Black Stripe
Yellow
Clear Silver Flake
6”CHASEBAIT COLOR
Green Machine Grn
Hot Pink
Green Machine Grn
Hot Pink
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PRICE
$50
$50
$50
$50
ORDER QTY
__________
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$ TOTAL_________
3.4 DAISYBAR....3” TEASERS – 4.25” CHASEBAIT
***200# CENTER LEADER...100# WING LEADERS 8/0 FORGED MUSTAD HOOK***
There is no better lure than this one when the fish are locked on tiny bait.
3” TEASER COLORS
Hot Pink
Green/Black Stripe
Yellow
Clear Silver Flake
4”CHASEBAIT COLOR
Green Machine Grn
Hot Pink
Green Machine Grn
Hot Pink
PRICE ORDER QTY
$44
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$44
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$44
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$44
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$ TOTAL______
6.9 DAISYBAR .... 6” TEASERS – 9” CHASEBAIT
***300# CENTER LEADER...150# WING LEADERS 10/0 FORGED MUSTAD HOOK***
A great, all-around canyon and offshore bar.
TEASERS
Cedar Plug
Hot Pink
Hot Pink
Hot Pink
Hot Pink
Hot Pink
Green Machine Green
Green Machine Green
Green Machine Green
CHASEBAIT COLOR
Hot Pink
Cedar Plug
Black and Purple
Black and Red
Zucchini
Blue and White
Hot Pink
Black and Green
Rasta
PRICE
$55
$55
$55
$55
$55
$55
$55
$55
$55
ORDER QTY
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_____________
_____________
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$TOTAL_______
9.12 DAISYBAR .... 9” TEASERS – 12” CHASEBAIT
***300# CENTER LEADER...150# WING LEADERS...10/0 FORGED MUSTAD HOOK***
TEASERS
Cedar Plug
CHASEBAIT COLOR
Hot Pink
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PRICE
$60
ORDER QTY
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9.12 DAISYBAR, CONTINUED
Hot Pink
Hot Pink
Green Mach Grn
Black and Purple
Black and Red
Black and Green
Zucchini
Blue and White
Rasta
Cedar Plug
Black and Purple
Black and Green
Hot Pink
Rasta
Green Mach Green
Rasta
Hot Pink
Black and Purple
$60
$60
$60
$60
$60
$60
$60
$60
$60
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$TOTAL________
PRO SQUID BALLYHOO DAISYBAR
THE BALLYHOO SPIDER (DOES NOT INCLUDE PAINTED-ON BILLS)
MODEL
SQUID SIZE COLORS (TEASERS/CHASEBAITS)
QTY
PRICE
PS-BLUE
8”X 8”
BLUE/WHITE BALLYHOO
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$120
PS-PURP
8”X 8”
PURPLE
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$120
PS-DORADO
8”X 8”
GREEN/YELLOW DORADO
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$120
PS-PINK
8”X 8”
PINK & WHITE
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$120
TOTAL
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$TOTAL_________
6.15 BIGEYE & BIG MARLIN DAISYBAR 6" TEASERS - 15" CHASEBAIT
A seriously deadly DaisyBar designed and rigged specifically for big tuna and marlin.
TEASERS
Cedar Plug
Hot Pink
Hot Pink
Hot Pink
Green Machine Green
Green Machine Green
CHASEBAIT COLOR
Hot Pink
Cedar Plug
Green Mach Green
Black and Red
Black and Green
Pink and White
PRICE
$66
$66
$66
$66
$66
$66
ORDER QTY
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$TOTAL________
We can’t leave this section without a reminder to those Green Machine fans who would like a lower cost, far better
(especially when it comes to billfish) alternative to the hard plastic original version...attach any size – that’s from six to
twenty inches – “Green Machine green” squid to the back of a BaitPod Bar.
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DAISYBARS WITH BAIT PODS ONLY
(USE WITH YOUR FAVORITE CHAIN CHASEBAIT OR EVEN MEAT)
BAITPOD 3.3 - 3" TEASERS ONLY
***200# CENTER LEADER...150# WING LEADERS***
Our six inch Dart or Fast Freddy are killer chasebaits here.
3” TEASER COLORS
PRICE
ORDER QTY
Hot Pink
$36
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Green/Black Stripe
$36
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Yellow
$36
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Clear Silver Flake
$36
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$TOTAL__________
BAITPOD 6.6 - 6" TEASERS ONLY
Our CaboTiger in flash is a great chasebait here.
6” TEASER COLORS
Cedar Plug
Hot Pink
Green Mach Grn
Rasta
Zucchini
Black and Purple
Black and Green
PRICE
$40
$40
$40
$40
$40
$40
$40
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ORDER QTY
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$TOTAL__________
PRO SQUID BALLYHOO BAITPOD
No question here, a Pro Squid chasebait is best in pink & white, dorado, blue/white ballyhoo, or purple
MODEL
SQUID SIZE COLORS (TEASERS/CHASEBAITS)
QTY
PRICE
PSP-BLUE
8”X 8”
BLUE/WHITE BALLYHOO
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$100
PSP-PURP
8”X 8”
PURPLE
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$100
PSP-DORADO 8”X 8”
GREEN/YELLOW DORADO
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$100
PSP-PINK
8”X 8”
PINK/WHITE
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$100
BAITPOD 9.9 – 9” TEASERS ONLY
We strongly recommend a 15” squid here – and heavy tackle!
9” TEASER COLORS
Cedar Plug
Hot Pink
Green Mach Grn
Rasta
Zucchini
Black and Purple
Black and Green
PRICE
$50
$50
$50
$50
$50
$50
$50
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ORDER QTY
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$TOTAL______
TOTAL
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TOTAL______
BAITPOD 6.6 MAGNUM - 6" TEASERS ONLY
(HVY DUTY RIGGING FOR BIG TUNA AND MARLIN)
***400#, EXTRA LONG CENTER LEADER...150# WING LEADERS***
6” TEASER COLORS
Hot Pink
Green Machine Grn
PRICE
$50
$50
ORDER QTY
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TOTAL ______
A nine inch chasebait is often a good idea here.
BAITPOD 12.12 – 12” TEASERS ONLY
(HVY DUTY RIGGING FOR BIG TUNA AND MARLIN)
***400#, EXTRA LONG CENTER LEADER...150# WING LEADERS***
12” TEASER COLORS
Cedar Plug
Hot Pink
Green Mach Grn
Rasta
Zucchini
Black and Purple
Black and Green
PRICE
$55
$55
$55
$55
$55
$55
$55
ORDER QTY
____________
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$TOTAL________
Run a huge, 20” long Monster Squid behind this one – if you dare!
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NAKED DAISYBAR TOWBARS FOR THOSE WHO RIG THEIR OWN
BAR
3.6N
9.12N
SQUID SIZES
3-6”
9-12”
WT
.20 OZ
.22OZ
PRICE
$17
$18
ORDER QTY
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$TOTAL_________
NEW!
DREDGE & DOWNRIGGER FANS...THIS IS FOR YOU
A NEW ERA IN DREDGE PERFORMANCE IS HERE...
SUPERBAR SPIDER DREDGES!
Here is a six inch (determined by teaser size) SPIDER in bait configuration. This is a deep tuna slayer of the first order!
A WHOLE NEW KIND OF DREDGE – ONE THAT ALL FISHERMEN CAN USE. MEET
OUR NEW, THREE DIMENSIONAL, UNDERWATER SUPERBAR, THE SPIDER!
Until now, dredges have become more and more popular as fish-attracting, but not fish-catching devices. The typical
dredge is simply too heavy and bulky for catching fish. Not so with our new SPIDERS. The concept is exactly the same as
our SUPERBARS – mimic a school of bait packed together and running, only underwater and make a unit that is easy to
handle and fish with that barely hampers the fight of the fish. Unlike the huge, bulky, hard-to-handle traditional dredges,
our SPIDERS are designed to both attract and catch fish. As it is with surface bars, “bait configurations” with a different
color straggler trying to catch up to the school get mauled by fish during feeding periods. Also like spreaderbars,
“predator configurations” turn on non-feeding fish and work far better than bait configurations during those all-toofrequent non-feeding periods. Fish Spiders just under the surface, or down deep off of a downrigger or planer and there
will be nowhere that the fish can hide. Now, instead on one huge teaser, anglers can troll multiple dredges alone, or
under their spreaderbars for tangle free, great fish-attracting spreads.
UNTIL NOW, MOST DREDGES HAVE BEEN USED AS TEASERS ONLY. NOW CATCH FISH WITH THEM
Again like spreaderbars, early dredges and, unlike bars, many of today’s dredges are rigged with natural baits, a costly,
time-consuming, hard-to-make rig with a short lifespan that attracts fish, but that is fragile and easily damaged or
destroyed, especially when attacked by school, not billfish. Plus, big “meat” dredges are a hassle in the cockpit,
especially in rough conditions and they tow like trucks, ideally requiring electric reels or other powerful mechanical
devices to retrieve them, plus they are very expensive. This has restricted their use to mostly big boats. Finally, as far as
we know, regular dredges have been designed to represent big schools of big baits, leaving the entire, critical small and
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medium sized bait and bait pods part of matching the hatch empty. This may not matter to the marlin hounds, but it
should, of course, because like spreaderbars, SPIDERS are simply awesome marlin catchers, but it certainly should to you if
you fish for the school species, like tunas, dorado and wahoo – fish that often get locked in on small-to-tiny baits. Toss in
smaller inshore and bottom species (bottom species? Dredges? Oh, yeah!) too and you should wind up seeing what we
did...there was a lot of room for a new, smaller, lighter, easier handling and trolling, less expensive dredge design...thus,
the SPIDERS.
PLASTIC SQUIDS ARE BETTER THAN MEAT IN MANY WAYS
Forget the meat (and huge numbers of squids too) on dredges and replace them with smaller, more natural pods of hollow
squids in various sizes and colors and you have eliminated many of the shortcomings of traditional dredges. You can still
fish natural baits as chasebaits if you must have meat, of course.
1. You can skip the time and expense of rigging a bunch of natural baits.
2. Skip the freezers, coolers, curing and costly bait shipments too. Hollow squid bars are always ready to rock.
3. Hollow squids are a lot tougher than natural ballyhoo or mullet and are far easier to replace if they do get
shredded
4. Hollow squids do not blow out and turn to mush...unlike that real stuff, they just keep on fishing, hour after
hour and day-in and day-out.
Here is a drawing of an immensely popular configuration on bars, SPIDERS, DaisyBars and Ruckus Raiser Bugs in
areas where ballyhoo are important prey. The squids here are our Pro Squids, great ballyhoo shape imitators. It
doesn’t take too vivid and imagination to visualize what happens when a nice pod of eleven ballyhoo comes sliding
along just under the surface, deep off a downrigger or planer, with that one poor, doomed bait trying to catch up
to its school, does it? And I remind you, the “ballyhoos” on THIS lightweight, easy pulling, easy handling, easy
stowing dredge never blow out, never rot, never stink, never require rigging, or salt, or brines, or baking soda, they
can be trolled at slow and fast speeds and they cost a mere fraction of what one of those monster dredges do. While
we don’t think that the Magic Marker created bills and color dots are important, some of our customers do and we
have to admit, they do look cool and we do put the bills on our own ballyhoo chasebaits.
5. Hollow squid dredges (SPIDERS) are always ready to go at the drop of a hat. When you meter deep fish and bait,
just pull them out and drop them in and get to catching.
6. They stow as easy as can be, too. No refrigeration or care...just stow ‘em.
7. Hollow squids allow you to fish a myriad of deadly colors – natural baits don’t.
8. Hollow squids are very lightweight and hydrodynamic in shape – they tow like feathers, not trucks!
9. Hollow squids look and feel real. Unlike flat, paper-thin cutout teasers, they are three dimensional and look
real from all angles.
10. That lightweight and easy towing open up dredge fishing for boats of all sizes, including very small ones.
11. Besides being tuna and dorado “candy” and with bigger chasebaits, good marlin catchers, hollow squid sizes
in the tiny-to-small ranges open up a whole new world of deep water dredge fishing with planers and
downriggers, or even just weights for smaller species that prefer and get locked onto tiny, deep bait. This
includes bottom species like fluke, halibut, weakfish, specs, striped bass and many other species, including
salmon.
12. The smaller sized SPIDERS are flat-out deadly on any freshwater species that eats small baits – or even big ones.
If you fish freshwater lakes and impoundments, try them. Rainbow, brown and lake trout, large and
smallmouth bass, freshwater stripers, walleye and big crappie were all caught during field testing.
13. See our Price List. SPIDERS are far less expensive than metal dredges. Now anyone can afford them.
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A HUGE Spider salmon
A nice albacore on a Spider & trolling sinker
Bar lengths vary according to the size of the teasers and are designed to eliminate tangling while presenting the illusion
of a tightly packed bait pod with a straggler trailing it. The chasebaits are rigged on our custom clips so that they can be
changed easily and quickly. If you are after big tuna, marlin or wahoo, use our big bars or change the chasebait on a
little one to a nine or twelve inch squid. Remember to rig chasebaits on wire (or order them that way from us) if the
wahoo are in town. We murdered them while field testing the SPIDERS, so be prepared!
Another Spider bite victim, a big yellowtail caught with the
Sportfisherman Fleet. The Spider is above the angler’s left hand.
Here is what is likely to be our hottest SPIDER, THE BABY. It’s a school of sixteen 2 ¾” silver glitter baits on the run from a
little, 4 ¼” chasebait. As is, this is a killer on deep tuna, especially albacore and school yellowfin and bluefin, and is also
dynamite trolled just below the surface when they are on top. Dorado are also suckers for little baits like this.
As good as THE BABY SPIDER is on offshore gamefish, it is inshore where this little fellow is going to perform pure fishing
magic for those clever enough to try them. We have used them inshore with phenomenal results. The teasers and
chasebaits are the same size of the near-universal prey of inshore species, be they fluke, halibut, weakfish, stripers, salmon
(inshore and offshore) and who knows what else? Inshore trollers, even those in very small boats and kayaks are going to
have a ball with the BABIES. This SPIDER is going to attract and catch everything that eats little baits and that is a mighty
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long list of species. Be sure to try some bigger chasebaits in the 6, 9 and 12” class when trolling BABIES inshore and see
what big fish like stripers and white seabass do when they spot that little predator chasing that school of little baitfish!
SPIDERS should be trolled behind trolling sinkers of various sizes and off of downriggers and planers.
SQUIDS VS NATURAL BAITS – IN A LOT OF WAYS, SQUIDS ARE
BETTER & THEY ARE ALWAYS THERE...SOMETIMES BAIT ISN’T
Hollow squid behind a bar will even out-fish the real stuff. Why? Number one, a billfish can’t mangle or steal a
hollow squid like he can a ballyhoo, mullet, Spaniard, or real squid – no way. He can beat and bite the crap out of
one, but rarely can knock or rip it out of action, like he can do so easily to the real stuff. How many more fish would
that add to your catch each year? Add up the times a marlin has trashed or stolen a bait on you and left and that’s how
many more you would have caught. Then consider the time wasted seeing and replacing those self-destructing, blown
out baits and figure out how much fishing that time sort of thing costs you. For some, it will be a lot of fish. For some
it won’t be a ton of them. In any and all cases, it will be a plus in the caught fish column.
THEN THERE’S THOSE RAT PACK ATTACKS...OH NO! BONE-NEE-TOW! CHOPPA, CHOPPA!
And there’s more when it comes to bars out-fishing naturals. Yeah, yeah, I know; heresy as far as the ‘hoo draggers
are concerned. The truth hurts, but this is it, baby, whether you like it or not. Most of us consider a good bait cooler
one with dozens of rigged baits, all ready to rock. But unless it’s a remarkable day, most of those baits are going to be
wasted. Besides the baits that marlin steal or stomp into meatballs is the loss of trolling time and opportunities due to
the attrition caused by smaller game or trash fish hitting and mangling those beautifully rigged ballyhoos that, like
blown-out ones (and need I point out that you will never blow out a hollow squid?), you have to see in the first place,
then reel in and replace.
Count the times that little dorado, bullet tunas, bonitos of all kinds, gars, needlefish, jacks, little macks and dink
tunas have come up and chopped or bent up those beautiful marlin baits on you and the time you then lose first of all
noticing what has happened, especially if the line isn’t popped out of a clip, or a drag doesn’t sound off, then cranking
in and replacing mugged baits. And don’t forget about the time and expense you waste rigging up a cooler full of
ballyhoo that are, if you’re lucky, are only going to catch one marlin for you.
For most of us, this kind of crap takes up a lot of time and uses up a lot of baits and takes away some trolling time
and worse yet, most of the time when it happens, it’s trolling time when you are in an area with lots of life – very
likely marlin country and the wrong place not to have all of your lures or baits in the water and doing their thing.
ROUGH, WINDY CONDITIONS MAKING SURFACE FISHING TOUGH?
High winds and rough water can make trolling spreaderbars, other lures and even natural baits tough. That’s a great time
to put out SPIDERS with 8 ounce trolling sinkers and keep that multiple lure spread going for you underwater, where the fish
can see them through all of the surface clutter and get clear shots at them when they come for them. Sure, you can to the
same with other lures and natural baits, but they don’t have the fish-raising and catching power of multiple lures going for
them, like the SPIDERS.
DOUBLE TOUGH, BUT BOAT AND FISHERMAN KIND AND LONG LIVED
Like SUPERBARS, the SPIDERS ‘ main elements, the bars and centerpiece, are constructed entirely of XT-11 composite, which
is indestructible and flexible. It will not rust or kink. The rest of the SPIDER consists of leaders, squids, plastic beads and
chafing gear, with the only metal being the swages, egg sinkers, hook and clip, so rust and corrosion are never a problem
and will not hurt the boat or crew.
SPIDER
PRICES
MODEL
BABY
BABY
BABY
BABY
SQUID SIZE
2 ¾” x 4 ¼”
2 ¾” x 4 ¼”
2 ¾” x 4 ¼”
2 ¾” x 4 ¼”
COLORS (TEASERS/CHASEBAIT)
SILVER GLITTER/GRN & YELLOW
PINK/BLACK & PURPLE
GREEN & BLK/GRN & YELLOW
YELLOW/BLK & PURPLE
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QTY
____
____
____
____
PRICE
$60
$60
$60
$60
TOTAL
_______
_______
_______
_______
TOTAL______
MODEL
LITTLE
LITTLE
LITTLE
LITTLE
LITTLE
LITTLE
LITTLE
LITTLE
LITTLE
LITTLE
LITTLE
SQUID SIZE
6” x 6”
6” x 6”
6” x 6”
6” x 6”
6” x 6”
6” x 6”
6” x 6”
6” x 6”
6” x 6”
6” x 6”
6” x 6”
HOT PINK/GREEN
HOT PINK/SQUID (PETROLERO)
GREEN/HOT PINK
RASTA/BLACK & GREEN
BALLYHOO (BLUE & WHT)/BLK PUR
SQUID (PETROLERO)/HOT PINK
ZUCCHINI/BLACK & GREEN
CEDAR PLUG/HOT PINK
BLACK & PURP/BLUE & WHITE
BLACK & GREEN/GRN
BLACK & RED/HOT PINK
QTY
____
____
____
____
____
____
____
____
____
____
____
PRICE
$70
$70
$70
$70
$70
$70
$70
$70
$70
$70
$70
TOTAL
_______
_______
_______
_______
_______
_______
_______
_______
_______
_______
_______
TOTAL______
MODEL
MEDIUM
MEDIUM
MEDIUM
MEDIUM
MEDIUM
MEDIUM
MEDIUM
MEDIUM
MEDIUM
MEDIUM
MEDIUM
SQUID SIZE
9” x 9”
9” x 9”
9” x 9”
9” x 9”
9” x 9”
9” x 9”
9” x 9”
9” x 9”
9” x 9”
9” x 9”
9” x 9”
HOT PINK/GREEN
GREEN/HOT PINK
BALLYHOO (BLUE & WHT)/BLK PUR
CEDAR PLUG/ RASTA
RASTA/BLACK & GREEN
DORADO/BLACK & RED
ZUCCHINI/BLACK & PURPLE
BLACK & PURPLE/HOT PINK
BLACK & GREEN/RASTA
BLACK & RED/DORADO
QTY
____
____
____
____
____
____
____
____
____
____
____
PRICE
$75
$75
$75
$75
$75
$75
$75
$75
$75
$75
$75
TOTAL
_______
_______
_______
_______
_______
_______
_______
_______
_______
_______
_______
TOTAL_______
MODEL
SQUID SIZE
PS-BLUE
8 ½”
PS-PINK
8 ½”
PS-PURP
8 ½”
PS-DORADO
8 ½”
COLORS (TEASERS/CHASEBAITS)
BLUE/WHITE BALLYHOO
PINK AND WHITE
PURPLE
GREEN/YELLOW DORADO
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QTY
____
____
____
____
PRICE
$150
$150
$150
$150
TOTAL
______
______
______
______
TOTAL_______
MODEL
BIG
BIG
BIG
BIG
BIG
BIG
BIG
BIG
BIG
BIG
SQUID SIZE COLORS (TEASERS/CHASEBAIT)
12” x 12”
HOT PINK/GREEN
12” x 12”
GREEN/HOT PINK
12” x 12”
BALLYHOO (BLUE & WHT)/BLK GRN
12” x 12”
RASTA/BLACK & GREEN
12” x 12”
ZUCCHINI/BLACK & PURPLE
12” x 12”
DORADO/BLACK & RED
12” x 12”
12” x 12”
BLACK & PURPLE/HOT PINK
12” x 12”
BLACK & GREEN/DORADO
12” x 12”
BLACK & RED/RASTA
QTY
____
____
____
____
____
____
____
____
____
____
PRICE
TOTAL
$80
_______
$80
_______
$80
_______
_______
$80
$80
_______
$80
_______
$80
_______
_______
$80
$80
_______
_______
$80
TOTAL $ ALL SPIDERS_______
FISH DREDGES TO RAISE AND CATCH TUNA AND MARLIN IN TOURNAMENTS
Troll SPIDERS off of trolling weights and using the “IGFA legal” technique discussed shortly in this catalog and catch,
instead of just teasing up tournament marlin and tunas. Because hookups are basically automatic, this method is also an
excellent, every day way of adding the power of dredge fishing to boats with small or inexperienced crews. And once
again, because they aren’t bulky and hard pulling, you can fish as many as you like in your spread, instead of just one
huge dredge that should be operated by a crane operator, it is so big, bulky and pulls so hard. You can also fish some just
below the surface with trolling weights and a couple deep on planers or downriggers.
So there you have it...an all-new dredge that opens up the world of dredge fishing to a broad spread of anglers, from
canyon fishermen, to inshore anglers, kayakers, even to freshwater fishermen. Order up and start having fun!
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PRO BAR SETS FOR THE HARD CORE
PUT A WHOLE COOLER FULL OF “BALLYHOO” IN YOUR SPREAD!!!
THE PRO BALLYHOO SET
TWO BALLYHOO DAISYBARS
The set includes two Pro Squid DaisyBars with two extra chasebaits each.
Plus one Pro Squid Ballyhoo Spider and two more chasebaits.
This set puts a total of twenty-six, lifelike ballyhoo imitations in your spread with a half dozen different colored
chasebaits in reserve. Only three rods are tied up to present this many ballyhoo – again, three dozen of them!
SUPER SQUID BALLYHOO PRO SET COST, $450
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OR, THROW A WHOLE COOLER FULL AT THEM!
INTRODUCING OUR NEW, FULL SPREAD PRO SQUID BALLYHOO SET...
Ever wonder what would happen if you could troll fifty-two ballyhoo (or in this case, near-perfect, no-rigging-required,
non-stinky, no-blowout imitations) in your pattern? Well, we’ve done it and have seen the results – wild acts of gamefish
Pandemonium, strike, after strike, after strike!
WHAT ONE OF OUR FIRST PRO SPREAD CUSTOMERS SAID...
One of our customers who had been trying and struggling with different varieties of dredges summed up how much sense
this kind of spread makes. After receiving and running his Ballyhoo Super Pro Spread he emailed, “The minute I got my
Super Pro Spread and looked at it, I realized that I could load my spread up with terrific ballyhoo imitations and I’d never
have to mess around with those big, heavy, clumsy dredges again. Instead, now I “bust that big dredge school up” into
two schools of a dozen each, or twenty four artificial ballyhoo clones running underwater in the two short positions in
my pattern, with another twenty eight in little surface pods off my short and long riggers! And better yet, each is armed
with a hook, so I can catch fish on them, instead of just raising them and then trying to get them off the dredge. I’m sold!
Please send me a purple and a squid colored set at your earliest convenience. Check enclosed.”
FULL SPREAD PRO SQUID BALLYHOO SET INCLUDES
TWO, BALLYHOO SPIDERS
FOUR, BALLYHOO DAISYBARS
AND TWELVE OF THE TOP COLORED CHASEBAITS
ALL FOR THE PRICE OF 8 OR 9 RIGGED BIG MARLIN LURES!
REGULAR PRICE, $1,100...SALE PRICE, $950
BUY MORE THAN ONE SET, $900 EA.
*THESE SETS ARE VERY LABOR INTENSIVE. WE WILL ADVISE LEAD TIME WHEN YOU PLACE YOUR ORDER*
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NOW, FOR OUR NEWEST AND MOST EXCITING BAR EVER...
THE NEW, RUCKUSRAISER BUG!
This is how this crazy looking, fish-raising, six legged bar runs almost all of the time, with the main bar and the upper
ones out of the water and a surface explosion constantly following each of the two RuckusRaisers pictured here. It is very
rare for the RuckusRaiser main bar to go in the water, no matter how fast or how slow you troll it and the few times it
does go in, it pops right back out. It also stays out of the water for incredibly long distances behind the boat.. As you can
see, these two are being trolled flat a six to eight knots with a very low line angle, yet the bars are standing tall and
raising hell. All of that fish-raising racket and...
NO STUPID, HEAVY BIRDS OR OTHER PARAPHENALIA ON THE BAR AND IN THE WATER!
The little, light, innovative “BugBar” that you are looking at here is all that it takes to create the incredible lift and noisy
splash that the ones that you see running at the top are making. Like our new GraveDigger trolling lures, modern
computer and hydrodynamic technology were used to come up with this simple, light, lean and clean, yet super explosive
bar. The how’s and why’s of their performance isn’t important here and are, in fact, somewhat complicated and are
naturally trade secrets, too. What is important is that we have simply never seen a bar perform like this one!
THEY’RE FLIPPING YOU THE BIRD!
We’d hate to think what those big, old, wide, hard-pulling metal bars with the birds mounted on the bar weigh and how
hard they pull and we have to ask you – why do you think some manufacturers put birds on their bars in the first
place – not why the SAY they do, “to create a big ruckus”, but why they REALLY do? As sure as I’m sitting
here, they do it in an effort to keep their bar on top of – not OUT of the water where a bar should run - but on top of the
water. They may fool some, but not us...Birds don’t work unless they are in the water and if THEY are in the
water, the BAR has to be in the water too! How natural could a bar and birds being dragged across the surface
in front of a pod of squid look?
AND “THE BIRD BOYS” HAVE IT ALL WRONG IN OTHER IMPORTANT WAYS, TOO
Big “baits” like birds do NOT flee in front of pods of different and usually smaller baits, the teasers on a bar. That’s
“little chasing big” and it simply doesn’t work that way in nature – it’s the other way around. Two different kinds of bait,
birds and squids on a bar, are also unnatural as all get out. Natural bait schools are all the same size and species.
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THE COMMOTION CAUSE BY A HYSTERICALLY FLEEING BAIT SCHOOL IS NATURAL
And that’s exactly what these new RuckusRaiser Bugs bring to you and the fish – without all of the clunky, heavy, hardpulling, unnatural garbage attached. RuckusRaisers do their thing in choppy, rough and calm waters, but it is when the
sea conditions are on the calm side that they call in deep fish that see, hear and feel the frantic action up top and are
attracted to it. Both billfish and tuna get really freaky when they are raised by the wild, surface disturbance and pounce
on the little predator that is causing it! And just like all of our other marlin-capable bars, you get to fish for marlin with
lot’s of interruptions by those “by-catches” of tuna, dorado and wahoo...aw, shucks!
Here’s what happens when you slow down to lower end tuna speeds...The RuckusRaiser still “stands up”, but the
commotion is reduced part of the time and the teasers dart around, much like cedar plugs. That drives tuna nuts! We’re
not saying that the commotion disappears as slower speeds, because it doesn’t – check the picture on the right. Those are
two “Bugs” run long and flat at tuna speed off a panga down in Cabo. They are really ripping it up back there, then
doing “the cedar plug thing” for a little bit, then exploding again.
That’s a “Little RuckusRaiser” with 2 ½” squids on the left and a “Big” RuckusRaiser in the middle with 4 ¼” teasers.
On the right are two “Big” Ruckus Raisers with six inch teasers and twelve inch chasebaits.
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ALL RUCKUSRAISERS ARE MARLIN RIGGED & READY
RUCKUSRAISER “BUG”
PRICES
MODEL
RR-6
RR-6
RR-6
RR-6
RR-6
MAIN BAR WIDTH SIZE TEASERS
6”
3”
6”
3”
6”
3”
6”
3”
6”
3”
COLOR TEASERS
CHARTEUSE
HOT PINK
GRN/BLK STRIPE
CLEAR/GLITTER
BLACK/PURPLE
PRICE
$70
$70
$70
$70
$70
TOTAL
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_______
_______
_______
_______
TOTAL_____
MODEL
RR-8
RR-8
RR-8
RR-8
RR-8
8”
4 ¼”
8”
4 ¼”
8”
4 ¼”
8”
4 ¼”
8”
4 ¼”
COLOR TEASERS
PINK/WHITE
BLUE/WHITE /PINK
DORADO
BLACK/PURPLE
BLACK/RED
PRICE
$70
$70
$70
$70
$70
TOTAL
_______
_______
_______
_______
_______
TOTAL_____
MODEL
RR-10
RR-10
RR-10
RR-10
RR-10
RR-10
RR-10
RR-10
RR-10
RR-10
RR-10
10”
6”
10”
6”
10”
6”
10”
6”
10”
6”
10”
6”
10”
6”
10”
6”
10”
6”
10”
6”
10”
6”
COLOR TEASERS
RASTA
DORADO
ZUCHINNI
CEDAR PLUG
HOT PINK
PETROLERO
BLUE/WHITE
GRN MACH GRN
BLACK/PURPLE
BLACK/RED
BLACK/GREEN
PRICE
$75
$75
$75
$75
$75
$75
$75
$75
$75
$75
$75
TOTAL
_______
_______
_______
_______
_______
_______
_______
_______
_______
_______
_______
TOTAL______
MODEL
RR-11
RR-11
RR-11
RR-11
RR-11
RR-11
RR-11
RR-11
RR-11
RR-11
RR-11
11”
9”
11”
9”
11”
9”
11”
9”
11”
9”
11”
9”
11”
9”
11”
9”
11”
9”
11”
9”
11”
9”
COLOR TEASERS
RASTA
DORADO
ZUCHINNI
CEDAR PLUG
HOT PINK
PETROLERO
BLUE/WHITE
GRN MACH GRN
BLACK/PURPLE
BLACK/RED
BLACK/GREEN
PRICE
$85
$85
$85
$85
$85
$85
$85
$85
$85
$85
$85
TOTAL
_______
_______
_______
_______
_______
_______
_______
_______
_______
_______
_______
TOTAL______
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MODEL
RR-16
RR-16
RR-16
RR-16
RR-16
RR-16
RR-16
RR-16
RR-16
RR-16
RR-16
16”
12”
16”
12”
16”
12”
16”
12”
16”
12”
16”
12”
16”
12”
16”
12”
16”
12”
16”
12”
16”
12”
COLOR TEASERS
RASTA
DORADO
ZUCHINNI
CEDAR PLUG
HOT PINK
PETROLERO
BLUE/WHITE
GRN MACH GRN
BLACK/PURPLE
BLACK/RED
BLACK/GREEN
PRICE
$95
$95
$95
$95
$95
$95
$95
$95
$95
$95
$95
TOTAL
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_______
_______
_______
_______
_______
_______
_______
_______
_______
_______
TOTAL______
SORRY, BUT WE DO NOT SELL “NAKED” BUG BARS AT THE PRESENT TIME
Big Pacific yellowtails taken in December of 2008 on DaisyBars and RuckusRaisers aboard The Fisherman’s Fleet in La
Paz, Baja California. North, south, east or west, big yellowtail like these and all other gamefish go nuts for bars and
bugs!
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EXTRA PRO RIGGED CHASEBAITS
,
FROM BIG TO TINY
You will receive nothing but the very best pro rigging, much of it developed by us, when you buy our lures.
This is Fred again with a few words about our rigging. I take great pride in the quality of the components and the true
professional rigging of everything that we make, right down to the rigging of our chasebaits – an afterthought for many of
the so-called “bar manufacturers” out there. Our rigging is world-class and nothing less. Quality and professionalism
show in what might seem to some to be the little details involved in the construction and rigging of a bar or lure. As far as
we are concerned, there is no such thing as an “unimportant detail” when it comes to rigging lures for ourselves or for
you. Just take a look at the chasebait rigging on whatever bars you are buying and compare it to ours. The difference is
huge, right?
The truth is, there are a lot of rank amateurs out there selling bars who have little or no knowledge of the art of
professional rigging (and it is an art and their lack of knowledge of it shows) in the first place and insufficient respect for
their customers and the fish to rig like we do in the second. Our chasebaits are probably rigged better and with higher
quality components than just about any fancy marlin lure that you are using now, no matter who rigged it or how much
you paid to have it “Pro Rigged”. Our wide selection of Pro Rigged chasebaits follows. They are broken down by
SuperBar type. Feel free to mix and match as you see fit.
3 ½ AND 4 ¼ INCH CHASEBAITS
CHASEBAIT
3 ½”
3 ½”
3 ½”
3 ½”
3 ½”
COLOR
BLK/PURPLE
BLUE/WHITE
PINK/WHITE
DORADO
BLUE/PINK
HOOK
7/0 MUSTAD
7/0 MUSTAD
7/0 MUSTAD
7/0 MUSTAD
7/0 MUSTAD
LEADER
150#
150#
150#
150#
150#
WIRE?
____
____
____
____
____
CHASEBAIT
4 ¼”
4 ¼”
4 ¼”
4 ¼”
4 ¼”
COLOR
BLK/PURPLE
BLUE/WHITE
PINK/WHITE
DORADO
BLK/RED
HOOK
8/0 MUSTAD
8/0 MUSTAD
8/0 MUSTAD
8/0 MUSTAD
8/0 MUSTAD
LEADER
150#
150#
150#
150#
150#
WIRE?
____
____
____
____
____
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COST QTY ORD
$12.00
______
$12.00
______
$12.00
______
$12.00
______
$12.00
______
$TOTAL______
COST QTY ORD
$12.00
______
$12.00
______
$12.00
______
$12.00
______
$12.00
______
$TOTAL______
SIX INCH CHASEBAITS
CHASEBAIT
6”
6”
6”
6”
6”
6”
6”
6”
6”
6”
6”
6”
COLOR
RASTA
BLUE/WHITE
CEDAR PLUG
HOT PINK
ZUCCHINI
PETROLERO
GREEN/BLK
MACH GRN
DORADO
BLK/RED
BLK/PURP
BLK/GREEN
HOOK
8/0 MUSTAD
8/0 MUSTAD
8/0 MUSTAD
8/0 MUSTAD
8/0 MUSTAD
8/0 MUSTAD
8/0 MUSTAD
8/0 MUSTAD
8/0 MUSTAD
8/0 MUSTAD
8/0 MUSTAD
8/0 MUSTAD
LEADER
300#
300#
300#
300#
300#
300#
300#
300#
300#
300#
300#
300#
WIRE?
____
____
____
____
____
____
____
____
____
____
____
____
BALLYHOO BLUE & WHITE
PINK & WHITE
BLACK & PURPLE
DORADO
COST QTY ORD
$14.00
______
$14.00
______
$14.00
______
$14.00
______
$14.00
______
$14.00
______
$14.00
______
$14.00
______
$14.00
______
$14.00
______
$14.00
______
$14.00
______
$TOTAL_____
PROBAR CHASEBAITS
CHASEBAIT
8.5”
8.5”
8.5”
8.5”
COLOR
PURPLE
BLUE/WHITE
PINK/WHITE
DORADO
HOOK
9/0
9/0
9/0
9/0
LEADER
400#
400#
400#
400#
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WIRE?
_____
_____
_____
_____
COST
$18.00
$18.00
$18.00
$18.00
QTY ORD
______
______
______
______
$TOTAL______
NINE INCH CHASEBAITS
CHASEBAIT COLOR
9”
RASTA
9”
BLUE/WHITE
9”
CEDAR PLUG
9”
HOT PINK
9”
ZUCCHINI
9”
PETROLERO
9”
GREEN/BLK
9”
GRN MACH GRN
9”
DORADO
9”
BLACK/RED
9”
BLACK/PURP
9”
BLACK/GRN
HOOK
9/0
9/0
9/0
9/0
9/0
9/0
9/0
9/0
9/0
9/0
9/0
9/0
LEADER
400#
400#
400#
400#
400#
400#
400#
400#
400#
400#
400#
400#
WIRE?
_____
_____
_____
_____
_____
_____
_____
_____
_____
_____
_____
_____
COST
$16.00
$16.00
$16.00
$16.00
$16.00
$16.00
$16.00
$16.00
$16.00
$16.00
$16.00
$16.00
QTY
______
______
______
______
______
______
______
______
______
______
______
______
$TOTAL_______
TWELVE INCH CHASEBAITS
CHASEBAIT COLOR
HOOK LEADER WIRE?
12”
RASTA
9/0
400#
_____
12”
BLUE/WHITE 9/0
400#
_____
12”
CEDAR PLUG 9/0
400#
_____
12”
HOT PINK
9/0
400#
_____
12”
ZUCCHINI
9/0
400#
___
12”
PETROLERO 9/0
400#
_____
12”
GRN/BLACK 9/0
400#
_____
12”
GRN MACHINE GRN 9/0
400#
_____
12”
DORADO
9/0
400#
_____
12”
BLACK/RED 9/0
400#
_____
12”
BLACK/PURP 9/0
400#
_____
12”
BLACK/GRN 9/0
400#
_____
COST
$19.00
$19.00
$19.00
$19.00
$19.00
$19.00
$19.00
$19.00
$19.00
$19.00
$19.00
$19.00
QTY
______
______
______
______
______
______
______
______
______
______
______
______
$TOTAL________
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FIFTEEN INCH CHASEBAITS FOR MONSTERBARS
CHASEBAIT COLOR
HOOK LEADER WIRE?
COST
15”
RASTA
10/0
500#
_____
$20.00
15”
BLUE/WHITE 10/0
500#
_____
$20.00
15”
PINK/BLK/WHITE 10/0
500#
_____
$20.00
15”
ZUCHINNI
10/0
500#
_____
$20.00
15”
HOT PINK
10/0
500#
_____
$20.00
15”
PETROLERO 10/0
500#
_____
$20.00
15”
DORADO
10/0
500#
_____
$20.00
15”
GRN MACH
10/0
500#
_____
$20.00
15”
BLACK/GRN 10/0
500#
_____
$20.00
15”
BLACK/PURP 10/0
500#
_____
$20.00
15”
BLACK/RED 10/0
500#
_____
$20.00
CHASEBAIT
20”
20”
20”
20”
20”
20”
20”
20”
20”
20”
20”
TWENTY INCH CHASEBAITS FOR MONSTERBARS
COLOR
HOOK LEADER WIRE?
COST
BLUE/WHITE 11/0
500#
_____
$24.00
PINK/WHITE 11/0
500#
_____
$24.00
DORADO
11/0
500#
_____
$24.00
PETROLERO 11/0
500#
_____
$24.00
GRN MACH
11/0
500#
_____
$24.00
ZUCCHINI
11/0
500#
_____
$24.00
RASTA
11/0
500#
_____
$24.00
CHARTREUSE 11/0
500#
_____
$24.00
BLACK/GRN 11/0
500#
_____
$24.00
BLACK/PURP 11/0
500#
_____
$24.00
BLACK/RED 11/0
500#
_____
$24.00
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QTY
______
______
______
______
______
______
______
______
______
______
______
$TOTAL_______
QTY
______
______
______
______
______
______
______
______
______
______
______
$TOTAL______
HOLLOW SQUIDS
Cedar plug Blk/Red Blk/green Blk//purple Rasta
Dorado Zucchini Hot Pink
Petrolero Grn/black
Blue/white Grn Mach green
We offer six, nine, twelve, fifteen and twenty inch hollow squids.
MINIMUM ORDER IS A FULL PACK
ALL PRO TIP!
A huge fish turn-on, a twenty-inch hollow squid chasing a pod of little baits is just too much for a really big predator fish
– no matter what kind - to stand. Whether they are feeding or not, they come down on that chasebait like The Hammer of
God and you are hooked up and fighting a gorilla that you otherwise probably wouldn’t have known was even there. It is
a major error to think that bars with huge squids on them are for giant tuna only. That is just as silly as thinking that
the smaller bars are only good for tuna. The truth is, bars do exactly what pods of bait with stragglers lagging behind
them or little predators chasing them should do – they turn on and catch everything!
“BIG BAIT, BIG FISH” AND THE REAL REASON LIVE BAIT SOMETIMES BEATS LURES
We’ve all heard that a million times and it is absolutely true when the big guys are feeding and focused on bigger baits.
As always when it comes to matching the hatch, if the fish are on big prey and you aren’t trolling BIG artificials, you
probably aren’t going to get a bite. Most fishermen don’t realize it, but this is why live or dead bait sometimes outfishes
lures. It isn’t that natural baits are better than lures – it is that natural baits like small yellowfin, skipjack and big squid
are much bigger than the lures most people troll and the natural baits represent the size prey the big marlin or whatever
are feeding on much more so than lures that just aren’t big enough. Now think about the biggest lures that you troll.
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Are your lures this big? We’ll bet that they aren’t and that means you are missing out on some big fish.
DO YOU MATCH THE HATCH WHEN BIG BAITS ARE WHAT THEY ARE EATING?
If you do, you are one in a million. A nice, fat, twenty inch long squid like that one on the left represents a size squid or
baitfish that’s the kind of big meal that large sized game fish of all kinds will fall all over. Unless you are trolling huge
teasers with hooks in them, I doubt that your biggest lures even come close to a big squid size-wise. Start running bars
with the monster squids on them and you will be blown away by the numbers of big fish of all kinds that you will begin
catching. If you would like to try what I have found to be exceptional big fish catchers the easiest way, run a couple of
our bars DaisyBars with six inch squids being chased by a fifteen inch squid chasebait, or a 20 Monster Squid. If you
think that big blue or black marlin won’t go insane when they see that pod of smaller squid being pursued hot and heavy
by a fifteen or twenty inch predator fish the size of what they have been eating, don’t try this. But if you see the simple
logic and understand the competitive instincts and prey drives of bigger game fish, do yourself a huge favor and get and
run some of these bars. (If you are in wahoo country be sure to rig the chasebaits on wire. Big gator wahoo go nuts over
big bars on bars!)
COST?
A lot less than you probably think and FAR less than the typical big squid giant tuna bar. The six inch teasers/15 inch
model mentioned above only costs $66, as opposed to the traditional big squid bar. The same bar with a 20” chasebait
costs less than $75. And while we are talking about cost, compare either one to the price of one of those big, rigged
marlin lures with their lousy hookup ratios that cost a hundred and fifty or two hundred bucks. So why not pack a pair of
these big fish catchers for about half or less than one big bar or marlin lure? Makes sense, doesn’t it?
SQUID PRICES
SMALL SQUID PRICES
2 ¾” SQUIDS - $10 PER TEN PACK
COLOR AND NUMBER OF PACKS
$TOTAL
BLACK/PURPLE ____
_______
PINK
____
_______
BLACK/GREEN ____
_______
CHARTREUSE
____
_______
CLEAR GLITTER ____
_______
PEARL WHITE ____
_______
$TOTAL ________
4 ¼” SQUIDS - $11 PER TEN PACK
BLK/PUR
____
BLK/PINK/SIL ____
BLACK/RED ____
DORADO
____
3 ½” SQUIDS - $10 PER TEN PACK
BLACK/PURPLE ____
PINK
____
BLACK/GREEN ____
CHARTEUSE
____
CLEAR GLITTE ____
PEARL WHITE
____
$TOTAL
________
________
________
________
________
________
$TOTAL_______
6” SQUIDS - $18 PER TEN PACK
$TOTAL
_______
_______
_______
_______
$TOTAL
BLK/PUR
____
________
BLK/PINK/SIL ____ NOT AVAILABLE________
BLK/GREEN ____
________
DORADO
____
________
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4 ¼” SQUIDS - CONTINUED
PINK/WHT
BLUE/WHT
BLK/GRN
____
____
____
6” SQUIDS - CONTINUED
_______
_______
_______
$TOTAL______
PINK/WHT
____
BLUE/WHT
____
BLK/GRN
____
CEDAR PLUG ____
RASTA
____
ZUCCHINI
____
HOT PINK
____
PETROLERO ____
GRN MACH GREEN ____
9” SQUIDS – 10 PACK - $24 PER PACK
CEDAR PLUG ____
RASTA
____
DORADO
____
ZUCCHINI ____
HOT PINK
____
PETROLERO ____
BLK/GRN
____
BLUE/WHT ____
GRN MACH GRN ____
BLK/PURPLE ____
BLK/RED
____
PINK/WHT ____
12” SQUIDS - $12 PER FIVE PACK
$TOTAL
________
CEDAR PLUG____
________
RASTA
____
________
DORADO
____
________
ZUCCHINI ____
________
HOT PINK
____
________
PETROLERO ____
________
BLK/GRN
____
________
BLU/WHT
____
________
GRN MACH GREEN ____
________
BLK/PURPLE ____
________
BLK/RED
____
________
PINKWHT ____
$TOTAL______
15” SQUIDS – 3 PACK - $18 PER PACK
CEDAR PLUG ____
RASTA
____
DORADO
____
ZUCCHINI ____
HOT PINK
____
PETROLERO ____
BLK/GRN
____
BLUE/WHT ____
GRN MACH GRN ____
BLK/PURPLE ____
BLK/RED
____
________
________
________
___ ____
________
________
________
________
________
$TOTAL_____
$TOTAL
________
________
________
________
________
________
________
________
________
________
________
________
$TOTAL______
20” SQUIDS - $16 PER TWO PACK
$TOTAL
________
CEDAR PLUG____
________
RASTA
____
________
DORADO
____
________
ZUCCHINI ____
________
HOT PINK
____
________
PETROLERO ____
________
BLK/GRN
____
________
BLU/WHT
____
________
GRN MACH GREEN ____
________
BLK/PURPLE ____
________
BLK/RED
____
$TOTAL______
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$TOTAL
________
________
________
________
________
________
________
________
________
________
________
$TOTAL______
UNRIGGED SUPERBARS
Each bar comes with the ends pre-drilled and with an appropriate size blue press-fit center piece of composite material for
the bar and the leader to run thru. The leader material, swages, egg sinkers, snap, hook, chafing gear, rigging beads, etc.
are up to the rigger to get on his own. Our smaller bars weigh 4% of what standard “light” Titanium bars do!
Average weight of our smaller bars, .12 ounce!
Full sized Little TowBar.
THE PRESS FIT BLUE CENTER PIECE
The way that this part is connected to the SuperBar is unique and practical. It isn’t just a way for the leader to run
“through” (actually “by”) the bar and not interfering with the structural integrity of the bar itself; it is also an intentional
design for protecting leaders from breakage if the bar is subjected to enormous stress. This can happen when one tuna is
hooked up and another grabs a wing teaser and takes off in a different direction with it. If that happens the center piece is
designed to slide along the bar, which reduces the stress and keeps a leader from breaking. The center piece will not slide
off of the bar completely because the wing leader loops at the ends keep it from doing so. It takes great pressure to move.
RE-CENTERING THE CENTER PIECE
Re-centering a center piece that has slid is a simple matter, but that is not as good as it sounds. Again, it is a pressure fit
which means the friction is the “glue” that holds the center piece in position. It is a very tight fit and the center piece is
hard to move. If you re-center immediately after removing the bar from the water it will still be wet and it is the water on
the bar that makes is quite easy to re-center the piece. It is better to allow the bar a few moments or to dry or to wipe it
down with a dry cloth before re-centering it. The center piece will then be more difficult to center, but this is good
because the dry bar surface creates friction and heat when you slide it and then the bar and center piece cool off when in
place. The center piece material shrinks as it cools much moreso than the bar does and this results in another tight fit to
keep the center piece in place. A shifted center piece is actually quite rare, but you do need to know why it happens and
what to do about it if it does, which is the reason for this short piece of advice.
NAKED (UNRIGGED) BAR PRICES AND ORDER FORM
**WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE PERFORMANCE OR LIFE OF BARS NOT RIGGED BY US**
QTY LENGTH WEIGHT
SUGGESTED TEASERS
____
____
8”
.175 OZ
2 ¾ -6”
9”
PRICE $TOTAL
$16
_____
.245 OZ
6-12”
$16
_____
____
10” UL
.200 OZ
2 ¾ - 4.25”
$20
_____
____
12”
.280 OZ
6-12”
$25
_____
____
14”
.320 OZ
9”
$25
_____
____
16”
.380 OZ
9” GREEN DEMON/12” SQUID
$26
_____
12” GREEN DEMON/12” SQUID
____
18”
.400 OZ
____
20”
.740 OZ
____
24”
.840 OZ
20” SQUID
$27
_____
____
20” 5 LEADER WIDEBODY
6 – 9” SQUIDS
$30
_____
____
24” 5 LEADER WIDEBODY
6-12” SQUIDS
$30
_____
$TOTAL________
15” SQUID
>> ALL BARS FULLY MARLIN CAPABLE<<
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$26
_____
$27
_____
IMPORTANT NOTICE TO RECORD SEEKERS AND TOURNAMENT ANGLERS!
In a very disappointing, uninformed decision the IGFA has decided that spreaderbars and dredges across-theboard don’t comply with the “fair chase” rule and have banned armed ones (those with hooks permanently
attached to them) for world record fishing. This means that they are illegal in tournaments that are fished under
IGFA regulations unless specifically allowed. That could come as a big surprise protest in tournaments from
now on. They are legal as teasers and if they have a lure or hook that detaches from the bar when a fish is
hooked.
OLD FASHIONED HEAVY METAL BARS ARE A PAIN FOR FISH AND FISHERMEN
This regulation came about because of the typical big, heavy, cumbersome, old fashioned metal spreaderbars,
the kind that you are probably using now if you aren’t using ours. The IGFA Board was unaware of ours,
which have answered any and all negatives associated with metal bars. The decision was based on old
fashioned, heavy metal bars that do, in fact, impair the fight of many fish. A high ranking IGFA official uses
our bars and has recommended that we submit them to the Rules Committee because he feels that they would
approve them, but that is a huge hassle that we are not going to deal with. What follows is how to fish bars the
IGFA legal way – with release devices connecting to separate lines in the simplest, most efficient way
imaginable, plus a whole laundry list of other great features.
WANT TO FISH NATURAL BAITS OFF SPREADERBARS OR SPIDERS? HERE’S HOW...
Some sharpies out there know that a ballyhoo, mullet, or strip bait chasing a spreaderbar or SPIDERS is dynamite
for white, striped and smaller blue and black marlin and of course, sails and other blue water gamesters. The
problem with doing so comes on drop backs after short bites. Drop backs with bars or dredges attached to the
bait are simply disasters. The bars and baits drop back in a jumble and often tangle. And of course the weight
and pressure of a bar or SPIDER on a fish that has picked up a drop back – especially a white or sail, usually
spooks them. Trolling as described here cures that. Natural bait fishermen use very light rubber bands or a
light release setting if they use a clip, the first strike breaks the band or the release pops, releases the bait (or you
can do it yourself by jerking on it) and the billfish has a nice, clean natural bait dropping back and the bar or
SPIDER has gone away. Bingo! Meanwhile, the bar or SPIDER is still in position, attracting the rest of dolphin or
tuna schools or even extra marlin.
MORE REALLY GOOD NEWS IF YOU WANT TO FISH THIS WAY
One of the really neat things about fishing the IGFA legal bar method is that expensive, fancy rods and reels
aren’t needed for the lower outfits that tow the bars. They are going to attract, not catch fish, so you can run
them off of just about any old rod and reel you have around – no need for roller guides, bent butts, powerful,
expensive rods, two speed or even lever drag reels. Because our bars are so light and easy to handle, just about
any conventional rod and reel will do, even quite small ones. Just spool those oldies up with some 80# line, fish
a tight drag to pull the teasers out of the mouths of any fish that grab them (some will), and you are in business!
FOR QUESTIONS OR TO PLACE ORDERS, EMAIL FREDARCHER@COX.NET
SORRY, WE DO NOT ACCEPT CREDIT CARDS OR PAYPAL YET
PAYMENT BY CHECK OR MONEY ORDER ONLY
PAYMENT SHOULD BE SENT TO FRED ARCHER, 31535 EAST NINE DRIVE, LAGUNA NIGUEL,
CA, 92677-2913...CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS, PLEASE ADD SALES TAX.
PLEASE DO NOT PAY UNTIL AFTER WE ADVISE SHIPPING COSTS
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